- "PBS Sets New Shows

PBS will broadcast a one-hour public affairs program called “Need to Know,” to be produced by New York’s WNET.org, on Friday nights beginning May 7, the organizations plan to announce on Wednesday. The new show, to originate from WNET’s soon-to-be-opened studio at Lincoln Center, will blend field reports, FEATURES and interviews on topics including the economy, the environment, health, security and CULTURE, and will make extensive use of CLOSELY SCREENED public input generated online. No anchor or reporters have been announced. “Need to Know” will REPLACE the public affairs programs “Bill Moyers Journal” and “Now,” which end in April. As part of the remake of PBS’s news and public affairs lineup, John Wilson, who oversees TV programming, said that PBS also planned to open a Web portal in May that would AGGREGATE all of its news and public affairs content, as well as journalism from local public stations." - Elizabeth Jensen N Y Times 1/12-13/10

We Americans are witnessing the most complete, wholesale and devastating substitution of FEATURE programming on "Public" radio and "Public" television. .eliminating HARD NEWS. .in our lifetimes - and the exorbitant costs to the public were made clear in the senatorial election of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts, and the 5-4 decision of the John Roberts Supreme Court to place future elections in the hands of major corporations, whether or not foreign owned.



Did you know that the present Chief Justice of this Supreme Court travelled to Florida in the Fall of 2000 to counsel Ted Olson in his argument before the Rehnquist Court to steal the 2000 Presidential Election from Albert Gore for George W. Bush?