3/30/2023 0 Comments Pbs into the wilderness![]() ![]() This non-stop bombardment of failures of American Civilization and how its existence was never founded as a “Shining City on a Hill” by righteous folk blessed by the hand of the Almighty but on hatred, evil and a willful intention of a people to exploit and harm others. While PBS is the Gem of Arts & Culture- Masterpiece Theater and the Create Channel, it has become the mouthpiece of the “Agenda of Grievances” The GOP leadership’s passivity, vapid vision and absence of oversight has allowed PBS programing to stray more radically away from a Balanced and Fair perspective that most taxpayers would agree, to extreme views that because this is a publicly funded entity (that PBS promotes actively as US Taxpayer Supported) it conveys a greater status of legitimate authority. Yet if you have no opposition to question or challenge this assumption then you control the entire playing field and run the ball anywhere that you like.Īs much as I am displeased with PBS’s non-stop stream of misinformation, my sense of revulsion with the GOP members of the House and Senate whose personal self-interest, absence of advocacy and total inability to even present the “frontage” of opposition to this inappropriate and unequal use of taxpayer dollars defines the quality of leadership we have chosen to accept.Īt least Newt and his colleagues gave it their best. the people only need to hear one side of the information ……just like in Ceausescu’s Romania or Hoxha’s Albania…. that in the New Century this is a form of “Oppression” The great challenge here is not their extreme content but the absence of Balance from the diametrically opposite perspective. While I applaud PBS’s excellence in strategic thinking, their impact on American Society is horrific. This explains how all attempts to Defund PBS even when both Houses were in GOP hands…. Such concerted power makes them bulletproof….that’s precisely the challenge PBS has no need for transparency or accountability No other media network can flaunt such “intellectual capital” who are equipped with the skills to contact their elected officials in Congress or the Senate. One statistic defines the number of influencers that watch PBS ….forty million viewers have advanced and doctorate degrees and net worth are far greater than most Americans. To their credit PBS is well entrenched in the deep swamps of the “Beltway” with (like myself) a rabid fan base of one hundred million viewers….that is almost one third of the nation. Most famously Newt Gingrich who promised to “Zero Out CPB” “The true definition of madness is repeating the same action over and over again, hoping for the same results”įor thirty years there has been almost a dozen efforts to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And, ultimately, it is the brazen quietude he finds in the Alaska backcountry that makes his film so compelling.Einstein encapsulates the entire debate of public funding of PBS so well: He escaped crowds and lines and summer reruns. With the notable exceptions of his hand-cranked Bolex camera and the airplane that delivered him supplies, Proenneke left technology behind. And to realize that Proenneke did all this work in front of an unmanned movie camera reminds me of what they say about Ginger Rogers: She did everything Fred Astaire did but did it backwards and in high heels. To watch Proenneke make, say, a salad bowl or perfect Dutch door out of scraps of native spruce is humbling. Why do I find this documentary-made 35 years after most of the footage was shot-so intriguing? Well, the more you watch, the more you understand what a radical visionary Dick Proenneke was, a pioneer on issues of the environment, sustainability, and artisanship. Leigh’s terrific story is in the February issue of Sunset. So Sunset sent writer Leigh Newman, who grew up in the Alaska bush, to Lake Clark National Park to visit the Dick Proenneke Cabin and report back. And yet, as millions have discovered, the 57-minute film Alone in the Wilderness is completely mesmerizing. My favorite documentary is shot on grainy 16mm film, has a monotone narration, and includes little action-a 52-year-old man builds a tiny cabin in the Alaska wilderness in the late 1960s. ![]()
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