PBS's Islam Problem

Commentary Magazine | May. 6, 2007 (News Analysis)

Originally created for the America at the Crossroads documentary series currently airing on PBS, the film was nixed upon completion and kept off the air. Before the screening on Tuesday, Frank Gaffney and Alex Alexiev, two of the filmmakers behind Islam vs. Islamists, joked that theirs was one of the first films "roundly attacked by the people who commissioned it." Gaffney added, "The nicest thing they [PBS] said about it was that it was 'alarmist.'" Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kenneth Hawley - May 6, 2007 - 5:23 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Kenneth Hawley (review), Jim McClintock (review), Matt Smyth (review), Chris J. Breisch (review), Jon Snader (review), Kay Brooks (review), John Elliott (review), Nick Watkins (review)
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Chris J. Breisch
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 by Chris J. Breisch - Oct. 1, 2008
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Matt Smyth
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 by Matt Smyth - Oct. 1, 2008

An important story outlining the need for transparency at PBS. A lack of a statement or effort to get a statement from PBS supporting why the film was pulled beyond the comment "Alarmist" would be my only criticism.

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Kenneth Hawley
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 by Kenneth Hawley - Oct. 1, 2008

Why is there no Topic under the "Media" Subject for media bias? This story is a bit one-sided, but then PBS has neglected to explain, in any kind of coherent way, their refusal to air the documentary in question.

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Jim McClintock
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Kay Brooks
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 by Kay Brooks - Oct. 1, 2008
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Nick Watkins
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 by Nick Watkins - Oct. 1, 2008
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John Elliott
2.8
 by John Elliott - Oct. 1, 2008

While not good journalism, this is a good editorial. I don't see anything claiming that this is a news story so I don't see anything particularly wrong with it. I wish the rating system allowed for scoring an editorial versus a news story.

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Jon Snader
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