PBS at the Height of its Arrogance

Submitted by Lawrence Schmerel (United States), Dec 17, 2002 at 16:06

One premise upon which PBS was founded is that the profit-motive inhibits television programers from being as honest as they would be otherwise. Thus by taking the profit-motive out of the equation, a publicly funded broadcaster would be able to tell truths that would otherwise go untold.

The part of the equation that was overlooked was "accountability." PBS does not have to answer to the consumer. As such it is a natural attraction and haven for leftist ideologues such as Bill Moyers. They are either not skilled enough to get a comparable job in the private sector, too lazy to hack real competition, or just too arrogant to accept the fact that their ideas are simply unacceptable to the vast majority of the public They detest free-market capitalism but at the same time covet its various products. They especially covet the broadcasting company's ability to influence the consumer. They believe that their discredited ideas will be accepted if resurrected and cosmetically enhanced. Of course, no one with common sense would invest personal savings in their Frankenstein Monster.

And as much as they detest free-market capitalism, they loathe even more the Judeo-Christian Western Ethic. They hate it first because it is based in religion which, like Carl Marx, they view as the opiate of the masses, i.e., it prevents us from seeing the "truth." Secondly, they hate it because it is an agent of control of human behavior. That is the job they wanted in the first instance.

PBS is a refuge for these arrogant elite who will thumb their noses as Judeo-Christian Western culture whenever they think they can do it behind our backs, deny they are doing it, and make us pay for it at the same time. They truly believe that we are all fools. They are also so arrogant that they interpret our rejection of them in the private sector as further evidence of our foolishness and our ever increasing need for their guidance.

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