{"id":4146,"date":"2007-01-21T23:27:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T04:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/01\/21\/public-television-station-owned-by-diocese\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T23:27:39","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T04:27:39","slug":"public-television-station-owned-by-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/01\/public-television-station-owned-by-diocese\/","title":{"rendered":"Public television station owned by diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"

HARLINGEN, Texas A public television station owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese in Brownsville, Texas failed to run a "Frontline" program about the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston. The station instead repeated the previous week’s program.
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Phil Zimmerman, a promotions assistant for "Frontline," says K-M-B-H T-V was one of only two P-B-S affiliates in the nation not to run "Hand of God." He says the other station didn’t air the program because of a scheduling conflict.<\/p>\n

Gerald Brazier, a member of a local church reform group, says viewers who called K-M-B-H were told the station’s general manager wanted to preview "Hand of God" to see if it was appropriate for local viewers.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for the Diocese of Brownsville says the Catholic church owns the station but does not influence programming decisions.
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I do wonder how the heck the diocese ended up owning a public television station in the first place.<\/p>\n

David Alexander wrote a critique of the documentary last week<\/a> that invoked a spirited combox thread that included the documentaries director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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