PBS is about to add Tucker Carlson to its line up. That's right, as if we needed to hear more from Tucker than we already do, we're going to be listening to noise from his particularly ugly tunnel of the echo chamber on PBS. On top of that, Bill Moyers will be leaving soon, and PBS currently has not announced any plans to balance their line up. Check it out in this must-read article here:
http://www.fair.org/activism/pbs-goes-right.html
I just wrote an email expressing my views to Pat Mitchell, President and CEO of PBS. Contact information follows below, as well as the letter I just sent off.
Pat Mitchell
viewer@pbs.org
Phone: (703) 739-5000
Fax: (703) 739-5777
Or use the PBS comment form:
http://www.pbs.org/aboutsite/aboutsite_emailform.html
You might also want to contact your local PBS affiliate about PBS's rightward lurch:
http://www.pbs.org/stationfinder/index.html
Dear Pat Mitchell,
I've recently learned about your plans to add more conservative talk show pundits to PBS, and I'm writing to ask why you are caving in to the right wing. As you know, television broadcasting is heavily biased to the right, and PBS has been the only place where many of us can get any alternate viewpoints. Now you are cutting left-leaning shows and adding Tucker Carlson, who already has his opinions voiced 5 days a week on another network. Why on earth would you think that adding Carlson would help provide a broader perspective? We can just watch CNN for that. Instead, you will be caving in to the right wing echo chamber and reinforcing it.
Bill Moyers, I understand, is leaving. What left-leaning shows are you adding to balance your new tilt to the right and your efforts to placate right wing conservatives?
About a third of all Americans lean left. Right now we have no place to go but to you. We account for your ratings. If you abandon us, you will lose your audience. Do you really think we need another Fox-lite?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Matt Miller