Liberal, Sex, Degeneracy, Media, Drugs

The puppeteer who gave Sesame Street's Elmo his voice allegedly threw a crystal meth sex party for a teenage boy in 2004, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week. Sheldon Stephens, now 24, is the fourth man to sue Kevin Clash, but he was the first one to publicly claim he had a sexual relationship with him as a teen.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Greed, Media, Jobs

Charlie Rose and his production company have agreed to pay as much as $250,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a former unpaid intern who claimed minimum-wage violations. Under the settlement, which was announced on Thursday, Mr. Rose and his production company, Charlie Rose Inc., will pay back wages to a potential class of 189 interns. The main plaintiff, Lucy Bickerton, said she was not paid when she worked 25 hours a week for the “Charlie Rose” show from June through August 2007.

Liberal, Crime, Government, Character, Sex, Degeneracy, Media

Sesame Workshop says Elmo actor Kevin Clash has resigned from “Sesame Street” in the wake of an allegation that he had sex with an under-aged youth. In a statement issued Tuesday, Sesame Workshop called the controversy surrounding Clash’s personal life “a distraction that none of us want” and that Clash “has concluded that he can no longer be effective in his job.” The company called Clash’s resignation “a sad day for Sesame Street.”

Crime, Sex, Degeneracy, Hollywood, Assault

On Nov. 21, Fernando Rivas, 59, an award-winning composer for “Sesame Street,” was arraigned on charges of coercing a child “to engage in sexually explicit conduct” in South Carolina. The Juilliard-trained composer was also charged with production and distribution of child pornography.

Liberal, Government, Obama, Character, Media

Can we be visionary? Can we really step into what this moment is? And that's why I say I want him to be a great president. But we got to help. We can't abandon him now. We can't abandon our posts. What are we going to do to help make him a great president?

Liberal, Obama, Media, Bias

At one point Mr. Obama made a major gaffe; he identified Abraham Lincoln as the founder of the Republican Party. Lincoln did not join the Republicans until 1856, over two years after the party was founded. The first Republican convention was held in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854. Such a gaffe would have brought huge amounts of ridicule and derision on George W. Bush, but in the case of Obama the media yawned. Actually, they did more than yawn; government-funded PBS has altered the transcript of the President's speech, removing the offending comment.

Liberal, Fraud, Corruption, Media

A subsidiary of New York City’s PBS station, Channel 13, has agreed to pay back nearly $1 million after the US attorney filed a civil grant-fraud lawsuit. Prosecutors charged that the Educational Broadcasting Corp., which produces programming for Channel 13, “made false or fraudulent claims” and “submitted false statements” regarding $1.2 million in federal grants between 2001 and 2008.

Liberal, Election, Character, Oops, Press, Politics, Corruption

In July 1999, PBS's Boston flagship WGBH admitted to helping in Democratic Party fundraising efforts since 1994, sharing with the DNC the names of 32,000 PBS donors. The Boston Globe said the fundraising deal was carried out despite "clear prohibitions against tax-exempt groups [like PBS] engaging in political acts."

  

By the time the full dimensions of the scandal at Lehrer's network became known, 53 PBS affiliates had admitted supplying donor names to the DNC, which then was gearing up to defeat George W. Bush in the 2000 election.

Democrat

PBS on Capitol Hill coordinating with Democrats.

Editorial, Government, Financial, Press, Greed, Jobs

PBS President Paula Kerger even recorded a personal television appeal that told viewers exactly how to contact members of Congress in order to "let your representative know how you feel about the elimination of funding for public broadcasting." But if PBS can pay Ms. Kerger $632,233 in annual compensation—as reported on the 990 tax forms all nonprofits are required to file—surely it can operate without tax dollars.

Liberal

With friends like MoveOn.org, public broadcasters don’t need enemies.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Union

Meanwhile, at least 100 people rallied outside the station in support of the Association of Employees of the Educational Foundation, Communications Workers of America, Local 1300, after WGBH management gave the union its final contract offer last month. “Management is trying to bust the union,” said union secretary and radio music librarian Alice Abraham. “The main problem is they’re trying to outsource all of our jobs.”