Tuesday, May 19, 2009

PBS Planning to Kick Out Stations That Broadcast 'Sectarian' Religious Programs

Here’s one sign that the zeitgeist in Barack Obama’s Washington is going to please the secular left.

On Saturday, Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi highlighted a policy shift brewing inside PBS: the PBS Board is going to vote in June on a committee’s recommendation that PBS strip the affiliation of any station that carries "sectarian" content.

Broadcast religious programming – like a Catholic Mass – and you’ll lose every PBS program from Sesame Street to the NewsHour.


Farhi reports that WHUT, based at Howard University in Washington, has already informed the Archdiocese of Washington it will cancel its "Mass for Shut-Ins" if the PBS Board approves the policy.

[The campaign against non-left free speech advances.]

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