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Current mood:  contemplative Category: Music
Most post-1980s anti-war and anti-corporate protest folk singers still aren't allowed to be seen much on the public television airwaves that the Public Broadcasting Service [PBS] still controls in the 21st-century. But recently PBS has been willing to air some documentaries about some 1960s anti-war protest folk singers.
Yet PBS still doesn't seem that eager to broadcast many documentaries about the life of 1960s anti-war protest folk singer/songwriter Phil Ochs--who used to frequently perform for free at many 1960s anti-war protest rallies.
One reason might be because a member of the Parsons Corporation board of directors named Molly Corbett Broad also sits on the board of directors of PBS. Coincidentally, the Parsons Corporation was given hundreds of millions of dollars in lucrative post-war reconstruction contracts following the Pentagon's 2003 attack on Iraq. As Reuters noted in a March 30, 2004 article:
"California's Parsons Corp., one of the most active U.S. companies in Iraq, said on Tuesday it won a contract work up to $900 million from the U.S. military for...work in Iraq.
"The privately-owned engineering and construction company said the latest deal includes the restoration and construction of bases..., police stations,...courthouses and prisons.
"The project for two years with three one-year options has a potential value of $900 million and is the second contract the Pentagon has awarded Parsons...
"Last week the Pentagon awarded a $500 million contract to Parsons for the construction and renovation of public buildings...
"Parsons also is part of a joint venture with Worley Group of Australia performing up to $800 million worth of work to restore Iraq's northern oil infrastructure.
"The company also is involved in a $1.8 billion infrastructure deal awarded in January by the U.S. Agency for International Development to engineering company Bechtel...
"Other lucrative Iraq business includes building military bases as well as a $1.5 billion contract Parsons obtained with the U.S. military for construction and engineering work in Iraq and other hot spots where the military is active..."
Besides including a representative of the Parsons Corporation board, in recent years the PBS board of directors has included a Wachovia Securities managing director, an Elizabeth Arden Inc. board member, a Bank of Hawaii board member, a Barclays Global Investors board member, an Osher Foundation trustee and president, a University of Miami trustee, a former Irvine Foundation CEO, a former Voice of America director, an American Council on Education president, a former University of North Carolina president, the Bromley Communications CEO, the Ad Council chairperson, a University of Cincinnati Foundation board member, a Lumpke Consolidated Companies board member, a former Washington Mutual senior vice president, a former president at Idle Wild foods, a director of Plar Corp., a partner in the Hogan & Hartson law-lobbying firm, a PepsiCo board member, a McKinsey & Company director, a Bank of Hawaii Corporation vice-chairman, a former FDIC chairman, a Longs Drug Stores Corporation board member, a Kaneohe Ranch trustee, an Anchorage Chamber of Commerce board member, an Alaska Oil & Gas Association Tax Committee member and BP Exploration (Alaska)'s Senior Tax & Royalty Counsel.
Perhaps this is why many U.S. anti-war and anti-corporate protest folk music fans still refer to PBS as either the "Petroleum Broadcasting Service" or the "Pentagon Broadcasting Service-despite its occassional broadcasting of documentaries about some 1960s anti-war protest folk singers?
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