roundtable: Re: Rightwing Attack on Public Media

roundtable: Re: Rightwing Attack on Public Media

Re: Rightwing Attack on Public Media

Doug Henwood (dhenwood@panix.com)
Thu, 9 Feb 1995 11:05:36 -0500 

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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 11:05:36 -0500
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: dhenwood@panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: Rightwing Attack on Public Media


At 3:16 PM 2/8/95, Jeff Briggs wrote:
> 
>Reply to Mike Perry re "taste and the need to attract support from
>families with kids" being the reason there is no "far left" on PBS:

I missed this the first time around, but can't resist a comment now.

Why is the "far left" - which in America is anyone to the left of Bob 
Dole, I guess - perceived as hostile to children? Maybe if you think 
the "far left" consists of militant queers clad in nothing but nipple 
rings. (By the way, I'm all for such folks being on TV; I'm not one of 
those family values lefties.) But if you think the "far left" belives 
in a decent minimum income, publicly funded child care, a public 
national health insurance scheme, free or low-cost education, decent 
wages and job security, rehabilitation of the natural and social 
environment, and encouragement of tolerance and cooperation rather 
than intolerance and individualized, marketish solutions to everything - 
then how can this be perceived as anti-kid?

Doug

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