roundtable: Re: Rightwing Attack on Public Media

roundtable: Re: Rightwing Attack on Public Media

Re: Rightwing Attack on Public Media

dmendoza@tmn.com
Tue, 7 Feb 1995 16:35:15 GMT 

Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 16:35:15 GMT
Message-Id: <199502071635.QAA23301@purple.tmn.com>
From: dmendoza@tmn.com
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Rightwing Attack on Public Media


In response to:
> 
>  Skeptical in Seattle,
> 
>  Mike Perry
> 
>  P.S. I do agree that the far left (i.e. "Tongues Untied") isn't well
>  represented by PBS programming. But the reason is taste and the need
>  to attract support from families with kids.


It is not just the "far left" as Mike Perry suggests, that is 
missing from PBS but almost anything left of Macneil Lerher.  And what 
does "taste and the need to attract support from families with kids" 
have to do with liberal viewpoints?  I know many liberals with both 
good taste and kids. And what is "far left" about Marlon riggs "Tongues 
Untied?"  His final work "BLACK IS BLACK AINT" is out and hopefully will 
be on PBS later this year. It just won the best documentary award at 
Sundance, and it is a powerful work. Does Perry equate homosexuality 
with "far left?"  Or is it just African American gays and lesbians?

David Mendoza
<dmendoza@tmn.com>

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