Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
The problem with Public Broadcasting is that mostly no one watches it. Programs that could result in more viewers being attracted to the “public” stations become tedious due to being drawn-out, ad nauseum, by pledge-breaks.
As to a widespread ire to the decision not to air “Islam vs. Islamism”….if a tree fell in a forest, and no one was in the forest, would it make a sound?
BG, PBS is best watched after taping .
I have read that this documentary was excellent and contained such truth it should be mandatory viewing. Hope I get a chance to form my own opinion. d
PBS is a broadcasting “service” that only services one thing – their own agenda. Used to be you could see good programs like Nova or less mainstream fair like the Anne of Green Gables movies. Oh yeah, you can still see Nova but like Bomber Guy said, it’s all sandwiched in between pledge pleas that go so far past annoying as to render the entire medium pointless. Kinda like NPR.
Pledge drives sucketh, Big Time, but they “only” come around two or three times a year. Thank God.
But when it comes to NEWS… There is NO finer reporting than that found every day on The News Hour, which I still refer to as “McNeill-Lehrer.” I’ve been watching for over 20 years and have yet to figure out Jim Lehrer’s politics…and that’s testimony, folks. (Gwen Ifil is another freakin’ story altogether, tho. I do not like that woman…) Plus they seem to get the highest caliber talking heads in the biz, bar none.