Public
Broadcasting Political Balance Agenda 2005 -
The Debate Issue of
Demanding Political Balance
in Public Broadcasting is Reprehensible
and Totally Wrong-Headed
Public
Broadcasting Reforms - by
Darrell
Udelhoven
Publisher of the
Series
- The Real
Political
Issues & People
Empowerment ©2005
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Credible
Public Interest Broadcast
Journalism must never be compromised
by a Political Balancing Agenda
The only
mandate in public
broadcasting
content is to
broadcast in the public interest, convenience, and necessity of the
audience
served.
Genuine
public interest journalism
with
integrity will have
nothing whatever to do with any political party interest' balancing
agendas! That is what
is wrong
with nearly all of the so-called journalism we
are
exposed to in the United States of America.
The
attempt to balance public
broadcasting content between
Democrats and Republicans "is destroying their mandate to
broadcast in the
public
interest, convenience and necessity." Those political
parties have
ongoing access
to mainstream media with which to mass communicate with the public.
There
should be no political
distinctions in the content of
your programming. Other than that public broadcasting is done in the
public
interest, convenience and necessity, --there is no political balance
requirement issue, nor should there be.
Broadcast
journalism should be conducted solely in the public interest with NO
regard to
any political balancing agenda.
When
they talk about
political
balancing, they only talk about Republican Party
and Democratic Party balancing; how ignorant is that kind of biased
agenda?
What about Progressives and all the other political categories that
would also
warrant political balancing fairness? That is the best agenda I know of
to
destroy journalism's public purpose function!
Journalism's
most
important
public purposed function is to criticize any and all government
officials and policies that are viewed as not being in the public
interest, regardless of political affiliation.
Read:
The Canons of Journalism and tell me where it mentions political
balancing
agendas. That kind of agenda has been, and is destroying journalism!
Why are American journalists allowing the Republicans to get away
with
this ridiculous threat to the integrity of public interest broadcast
journalism?
Government
Policy-making and Political Affairs Generate
News and Interpretive Commentaries
No matter what
political party is in power the
public wants and needs
the
comprehensive facts & realities behind the news that affects their
lives and the future for all Americans.
When those hard facts and
realities are accurately
interpreted to
reflect
the horrific impact such policies are imparting on our lives we begin
to
understand the value of unfettered journalism; journalism that
must be
protected from any and all interfering sources. Authentic BR
journalists'
must be allowed to broadcast all dimensions of those public
affairs
realities regardless of how that journalistic effort affects any
political
party or politician.
The demand for political party balance is ludicrous
and
is destroying
the
requirement of legitimate integrity in all forms of public affairs
journalism.
What
should be the
Purpose and Function of all Broadcast Journalism?
Should
it be to keep a critical
watchful
eye and ear on all
the political parties and their agendas or should it be to merely
balance the
viewpoints and agendas of the major political parties, many such
agendas which
have proven to be extremely detrimental to the public interest.
If you
require the balancing of the
major political party
interests’ you defeat the very purpose and function of broadcast
journalism to
broadcast in the public interest, need and necessity. Do we want
broadcast
journalism to be a mere balanced voice of the two major political
parties? That
will completely obliterate broadcasting in the public interest, need,
and
necessity.
The major factor
here is that major political parties
and
the Executive Branch of our federal government have tons of main stream
media
access to counter any reporting by broadcast journalists'.
We need critical journalists’ and critical journalism
by all
broadcast journalists in respect to all public affairs issues and
policy making.
Darrell Udelhoven
On a separate issue, Republicans’ want to cut Federal
funding to the
Corporation Public
Broadcasting from 400 million to 300 million dollars. Could their
motive be because they do not believe the programming content does not
favor their political agenda?
The
claim is that federal funding
is
only 15% of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting's budget and that
those
broadcasting needs could be picked up by other means. This is an
entirely different issue from that of the politically
balancing of
broadcast journalism.
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the PUBLIC
back in PUBLIC BROADCASTING New Link
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THE
POLITICAL
ISSUES
Their
has
also been
talk by the Republicans in congress to auction off all of our public
owned broadcast frequencies. Do you realize what that would mean? Think
about it! Darrell Udelhoven
Real
political
Issues