FOURTH SEASON DELAYED.
The producers of genealogy series Finding Your Roots violated PBS editorial standards when they omitted information about Ben Affleck’s slave-owning ancestors from the actor’s recent segment on the program, the public TV station said Wednesday.
The scheduling of the third season of Finding Your Roots has been postponed until PBS and Washington, D.C. affiliate WETA can be guaranteed improved editorial oversight of the series going forward, PBS said.
PBS also said that it will not commit to a fourth season of the program “until we are satisfied that the editorial standards of the series have been successfully raised to a level in which we have confidence.”
The public television network will remove Affleck’s episode from all forms of distribution.
Gee I guess this time its Skippy Gates who ‘acted stupidy’. Suck it, PBS
After Ben wanted the facts buried and the truth comes out he has the nerve to say this:
“We deserve neither credit nor blame for our ancestors…”
Um, tell that to your beloved president, you pathetic asshole!
Poor Ben is the idjit who called Bill Maher’s views on Islam ‘racist’ because he’s too obtuse to know that Islam is a perverse culture and hideous ‘religion’, not a RACE.
Truth from PBS? Or are they trying to figure out a way to whitewash afflecks past?
Progressive Broadcasting Sytem…..you couldn’t pay me to watch that crap.
Someone should violate Ben Affleck.
“The public television network will remove Affleck’s episode from all forms of distribution.”
Instead, maybe they should air a version that does not “violate their editorial standards.”
(If they have any.)
Whitewash much?
Was flipping through PBS recently during their “we need money or you won’t see great programming despite there being 500 cable channels, internet, satellite tv, streaming….” spiel.
It was program on the history of Jewish immigration in the US. It talked about the Jewish exodus from Eastern Europe and Russia, named but I was floored, and I mean floored when the segment came on about it being the MIDDLE EASTERN JEWS, not the Eastern European or Russian Jews who made the greatest contributions to America and then proceeded to have Egyptian, Iranian, Iraqi Jews tell about their “struggles’ in assimilating into racist America (though I did notice they did not name one Middle Eastern Jew who made contributions to film, music, literature, medicine, science, art…. in America).
I won’t watch anything with Skip Gates in it and wonder why leftist who hate history so much are always so willing to research their genealogy.
PBS stands for pure bull shit.
Wait – wait! I couldn’t get by “PBS editorial standards.”
Never read the rest ’cause I couldn’t stop laughing.
This is odd of PBS. The show is basically an ad for Ancestry.com and not journalistic investigation. Why should standards of journalism apply rather than standards of advertising (which are either very low or don’t exist)? Affleck is probably from a long line of tools, anyway.
So will Hollywood shun Affleck for have slave master DNA in his blood?
And here I thought “Finding Your Roots” was about locating your old VHS video of that TV series that had Kunta Kinte in it…
Hey Ben, some black guy named Shabazz is looking for you with a couple of guys wearing black berets. Call themselves the New Black Panthers or Pussy’s or something. Shall I tell them you’re not in or do you want to come out from under the bed and tell them yourself?
Can’t wait to see Ben on his knees begging for Black Redemption Summer Camp.
So, I’m guessing Ben Ahfuk threatened to sue them for shitting in his ancestorial cornflakes and jeopardizing his job security, so they pulled the plug? lol!