Racial Harmony on TV Gets Subsidies

Dutch program blasted as ‘propaganda’ worthy of Soviets

http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3046

“Can’t we just all get along?”

Those famous words spoken by Rodney King were evidently taken to heart by the Dutch government.

The Hague spent more than 11.8 million euros subsidizing public and commercial TV programming in the last two years for, among other things, showing black and white people getting along with one another.

The justice ministry program was discovered by the newspaper De Volkskrant. It distributed 610,500 euros to commercial broadcaster SBS6 for programs in which immigrants were shown in a positive context. A weather program on the same channel got 12,500 euros because it was filmed at a tennis club “where there is good integration between people of different cultures.”

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59801

2008-01-21