Sunday, August 27, 2006

PBS | Ombudsman | Ombudsman's Mailbag — Contrary Views

PBS Ombudsman Ombudsman's Mailbag — Contrary Views

...It turns out that one of the panelists that appears frequently on the program, Karen Czarnecki, is a Bush administration appointee to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor and senior adviser to the Secretary of Labor, but is identified on screen only by name and with the label "conservative commentator." Viewers are not told about her full-time job. In my column, I said I thought it was "a big mistake for the program and PBS . . . not to make her other full-time association clear to viewers in some fashion" and that "it may also be a violation of PBS editorial guidelines."...

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