Last night was the third opportunity for us to learn about candidates for president from PBS, our PUBLICLY SUPPORTED NETWORK. This supposedly means a network that reflects the views of every segment of the viewing public. Sorry, folks.
We've heard about Hillary, Jeb, Ben, Rick (both of them), Rand, and a host of others, but one person - for the third time - was conspicuously missing. Bernie Sanders.
For some obscure reason, the Monarchs of PBS, far from being the "public," seem to be the same corporatists who own all the other media - The Republicrats. The ones who have to pin a label on everybody, trying to cram them into their own pre-selected boxes and exclude anyone whose views don't fit into their private definition of "public." They don't want us to hear much about Bernie because he's against corporate control of our government, incuding the corporations who control what's broadcast on our "public" airways.
In this land of Not Enough, it's dangerous to air the views of anyone who denounces Too Much. Nobody can have too much, including bringing Bigger Shows to PBS. PUBLIC TV runs by the same rules as any major corporation - shut up with the Spread the Wealth, already. Bernie is the only politician of any party who's actually come out for a single-payer health plan, a tax where billiionaires will actually play (and pay) by the same rules as the rest of us and where - just maybe - non-profits will, too.
I suggest PBS is much more ready to denounce corporate/billionaire control in theory than to actually take any action that might irritate its corporate donors.
I urge you to examine why PBS is choosing to shut out any mention of Bernie Sanders. And, if you find anything that smells of the corruption I suspect, write lots of letters, raise lots of stink and shut off your own funding until it changes its ways.