Joanne Ostrow is out of patience for the right-wing mudslingers who have been trying to take out public broadcasting for the last decade, and who have recently scored some serious victories thanks to a conservative chairman at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. “The politicization of public broadcasting is in full flower… The man who is supposed to be the buffer between PBS and Congress has instead become a battering ram. This former head of the Voice of America seems to have confused the role of PBS and NPR with that of the VOA and Radio Free Europe, explicit political mouthpieces.”