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Dick Durbin: “If I can ask the Senator to yield further for a question, there was a recent episode in the last 2 years when the Public…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2007
If I can ask the Senator to yield further for a question, there was a recent episode in the last 2 years when the Public Broadcasting Corporation took a show by Bill Moyers off the air and wanted to replace it with a show authored by the Wall Street Journal. There were complaints, obviously, that Mr. Moyers was too liberal in content. Does the Senator from Minnesota believe that was a fair outcome or would he concede it would have been a fairer outcome to allow the American people to watch both shows, by the Wall Street Journal and Bill Moyers, and to hear both points of view and decide what they agree with?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing media fairness and programming decisions in public broadcasting.

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