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Education chief rips PBS for gay character
Network won't distribute episode with animated 'Buster' visiting Vt.
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:53 a.m. ET Jan. 26, 2005
WASHINGTON - The nations new education secretary denounced PBS on Tuesday for spending public money on a cartoon with lesbian characters, saying many parents would not want children exposed to such lifestyles.
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The not-yet-aired episode of Postcards From Buster shows the title character, an animated bunny named Buster, on a trip to Vermont a state known for recognizing same-sex civil unions. The episode features two lesbian couples, although the focus is on farm life and maple sugaring.
A PBS spokesman said late Tuesday that the nonprofit network has decided not to distribute the episode, called Sugartime!, to its 349 stations. She said the Education Departments objections were not a factor in that decision.
Ultimately, our decision was based on the fact that we recognize this is a sensitive issue, and we wanted to make sure that parents had an opportunity to introduce this subject to their children in their own time, said Lea Sloan, vice president of media relations at PBS.
Airing in Boston
However, the Boston public television station that produces the show, WGBH, does plan to make the Sugartime! episode available to other stations. WGBH also plans to air the episode on March 23, Sloan said.
PBS gets money for the Postcards from Buster series through the federal Ready-To-Learn program, one aimed at helping young children learn through television.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said the Sugartime! episode does not fulfill the intent Congress had in mind for programming. By law, she said, any funded shows must give top attention to research-based educational objectives, content and materials.
Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode, Spellings wrote in a letter sent Tuesday to Pat Mitchell, president and chief executive officer of PBS.
Congress and the Departments purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television.
She asked PBS to consider refunding the money it spent on the episode.
First act as secretary
With her letter, Spellings has made criticism of the publicly funded programs depiction of the gay lifestyle one of her first acts as secretary. She began on Monday, replacing Rod Paige as President Bushs education chief.
Spellings issued three requests to PBS.
She asked that her departments seal or any statement linking the department to the show be removed. She asked PBS to notify its member stations of the nature of show so they could review it before airing it. And she asked for the refund in the interest of avoiding embroiling the Ready-To-Learn program in a controversy that will only hurt it.
In closing, she warned: You can be assured that in the future the department will be more clear as to its expectations for any future programming that it funds.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6869976/
Education chief rips PBS for gay character
Network won't distribute episode with animated 'Buster' visiting Vt.
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:53 a.m. ET Jan. 26, 2005
WASHINGTON - The nations new education secretary denounced PBS on Tuesday for spending public money on a cartoon with lesbian characters, saying many parents would not want children exposed to such lifestyles.
advertisement
The not-yet-aired episode of Postcards From Buster shows the title character, an animated bunny named Buster, on a trip to Vermont a state known for recognizing same-sex civil unions. The episode features two lesbian couples, although the focus is on farm life and maple sugaring.
A PBS spokesman said late Tuesday that the nonprofit network has decided not to distribute the episode, called Sugartime!, to its 349 stations. She said the Education Departments objections were not a factor in that decision.
Ultimately, our decision was based on the fact that we recognize this is a sensitive issue, and we wanted to make sure that parents had an opportunity to introduce this subject to their children in their own time, said Lea Sloan, vice president of media relations at PBS.
Airing in Boston
However, the Boston public television station that produces the show, WGBH, does plan to make the Sugartime! episode available to other stations. WGBH also plans to air the episode on March 23, Sloan said.
PBS gets money for the Postcards from Buster series through the federal Ready-To-Learn program, one aimed at helping young children learn through television.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said the Sugartime! episode does not fulfill the intent Congress had in mind for programming. By law, she said, any funded shows must give top attention to research-based educational objectives, content and materials.
Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode, Spellings wrote in a letter sent Tuesday to Pat Mitchell, president and chief executive officer of PBS.
Congress and the Departments purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television.
She asked PBS to consider refunding the money it spent on the episode.
First act as secretary
With her letter, Spellings has made criticism of the publicly funded programs depiction of the gay lifestyle one of her first acts as secretary. She began on Monday, replacing Rod Paige as President Bushs education chief.
Spellings issued three requests to PBS.
She asked that her departments seal or any statement linking the department to the show be removed. She asked PBS to notify its member stations of the nature of show so they could review it before airing it. And she asked for the refund in the interest of avoiding embroiling the Ready-To-Learn program in a controversy that will only hurt it.
In closing, she warned: You can be assured that in the future the department will be more clear as to its expectations for any future programming that it funds.
IF YOU CAN'T SEE IT, IT DOESN'T EXIST.
IF YOU CAN'T SEE IT, IT DOESN'T EXIST.
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