DC: PBS pulled a documentary produced in association with a Chinese foreign agent over concerns that it did not meet the federally-funded media outlet’s editorial standards.
PBS SoCal, a PBS affiliate that co-produced the film “Voices from the Frontline: China’s War on Poverty,” is also conducting an internal review of the funding for the documentary, the organization said in a statement.
PBS made the decision in response to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s May 14 report that the film was produced in association with CGTN, a Chinese media company. The U.S. Department of Justice requires CGTN to register as a foreign agent of China.
Robert Lawrence Kuhn, a businessman who touts ties to the Chinese government and CGTN, was the lead producer of the film, which aired earlier in May on PBS SoCal and its sister station, KCET. more
When you lost PBS…
Why are we funding this shit, along with NPR?
It already aired this month. They’re not at all worried about editorial content as they are about the letter they got from the DoJ, and the threat made to their federal funding. They’d still run the program if they hadn’t been caught.
China’s “war on poverty” is a prime example of the Hegelian dialectic – – government creates the problem then becomes the solution.