| − | Even television is starting to notice. ABC, where 2008 presidential campaign contributions went [http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/06/entertainment-divisions-drive.html 98.6% for Obama], quotes a source saying that "newly-declassified U.S. and Soviet intelligence backs longtime allegations" that Hiss was [http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=1213034 a Soviet spy]. Public Broadcasting is subsidized by taxpayers (more than $1 billion in 2009)<ref>$400 million via CPB, $79 million in direct federal grants and contracts, and $655 million from state and local taxes. [http://www.cpb.org/stations/reports/revenue/2009PublicBroadcastingRevenue.pdf Public Broadcasting Revenue, Fiscal Year 2009], Corporation for Public Broadcasting, September 2009, p. 2</ref>—and was caught sharing PBS donor lists [http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/17/us/pbs-stations-shared-donor-lists-with-democrats-stirring-trouble.html?pagewanted=all with Democratic Party fundraisers]—but its educational program ''Nova'' identifies Hiss as one of "the foremost Americans [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/resources.html spying for the Soviet Union]," referring to him in its Teachers' Guide as one of "the last century's most [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/overviews/2904_venona.html notorious spies]." Even TruTV ([http://www.trutv.com/newname.html formerly Court TV])—[http://www.muckety.com/Query?SearchResult=6436&SearchResult=5031895&graph=MucketyMap?_r=2D owned by] [http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9910/S00001.htm self-proclaimed "socialist"] [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/54/400list08_Robert-E-Ted-Turner_ETX7.html billionaire] Ted Turner (who says "the [[KGB]] ... was an honorable place to work.... [I]t gave people ... an opportunity to do something [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27983385/page/4/ important and worthwhile]")—admits: "the bulk of evidence points to Hiss's guilt [http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/spies/hiss/12.html beyond a reasonable doubt]." | + | Even television is starting to notice. ABC, where 2008 presidential campaign contributions went [http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/06/entertainment-divisions-drive.html 98.6% for Obama], quotes a source saying that "newly-declassified U.S. and Soviet intelligence backs longtime allegations" that Hiss was [http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=1213034 a Soviet spy]. Public Broadcasting is subsidized by taxpayers (more than $1 billion in 2011)<ref>$429 million via CPB, $83 million in direct federal grants and contracts, and $565 million from state and local taxes. [http://www.cpb.org/stations/reports/revenue/2011PublicBroadcastingRevenue.pdf Public Broadcasting Revenue, Fiscal Year 2011], Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Table 1</ref>—and was caught sharing PBS donor lists [http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/17/us/pbs-stations-shared-donor-lists-with-democrats-stirring-trouble.html?pagewanted=all with Democratic Party fundraisers]—but its educational program ''Nova'' identifies Hiss as one of "the foremost Americans [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/resources.html spying for the Soviet Union]," referring to him in its Teachers' Guide as one of "the last century's most [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/overviews/2904_venona.html notorious spies]." Even TruTV ([http://www.trutv.com/newname.html formerly Court TV])—[http://www.muckety.com/Query?SearchResult=6436&SearchResult=5031895&graph=MucketyMap?_r=2D owned by] [http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9910/S00001.htm self-proclaimed "socialist"] [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/54/400list08_Robert-E-Ted-Turner_ETX7.html billionaire] Ted Turner (who says "the [[KGB]] ... was an honorable place to work.... [I]t gave people ... an opportunity to do something [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27983385/page/4/ important and worthwhile]")—admits: "the bulk of evidence points to Hiss's guilt [http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/spies/hiss/12.html beyond a reasonable doubt]." |