CBS Boston Liberal Journalist Worried More About Facebook Deceptions, Than White House National Security Fraud

Jon Keller, CBS News Boston, MA

Jon Keller is an opinion reporter on WBZ-TV (CBS News) in Boston, MA. He also is a regular on the local PBS television show Beat The Press hosted by Emily Rooney, daughter of CBS News famous journalist Andy Rooney.


Keller is at far left of this image

He appears to be indignant about deception. But only by individual civilians. Not a problem when the White House fools the people and journalists. Below is an email I sent to him on May 17, 2016. No reply as usual. He has never responded to my previous comments to his misguided criticism of his colleagues.


Ben Rhodes, White House National Security Adviser 

Saw your report on WBZ-TV news at about 5:20 PM on Tuesday May 17, 2016, regarding false Facebook posts which fool the public. I am curious why that gets priority over the reports that high ranking national security mogul Ben Rhodes, boasted of fooling American voters and taxpayers about the Iran nuclear deal. How he boasted of how stupid Americans are and how smart he and his colleagues are. Isn't that an abomination deserving of your access to air time? Or do you share the elitist attitude of the White House staff? Then there was similar boasting by Jonathan Gruber, about how stupid Americans are that the health care law was passed by his propaganda too.



Low information voters is nothing new. H.L. Mencken regularly ridiculed Americans for that 50-80 years ago. He was not a White House official. Does how one reacts to knowing that, measure the integrity of the individual?

See also Congressional hearing on May 17, 2016 before Government Oversight Committee on the deception of Rhodes. The Democrats on the committee argued that because some working for George Bush deceived Colin Powell about weapons of mass destruction, that makes it OK. Republicans and Democrats wonder why Trump is so popular.

[Entire hearing is about 2 hours and 45 minutes]

http://www.c-span.org/video/?409709-1/house-oversight-committee-examines-iran-nuclear-deal-messaging 

PBS Broadcasts Feature Showing Persons With Disabilties as Human Beings

This couple appears in the film to be healthy, handsome and normal. 

After a few years of pestering, with retaliatory threats because of my repeated questions, why persons with disabilities were never portrayed on taxpayer funded PBS stations in Boston, the stations actually (will wonders never cease?) broadcast a few full length features by independent videographers. The one being broadcast in January 2016 on WGBH-TV Boston and other PBS stations shows five people diagnosed with autism and their thoughts on love. They appear to be no different than thoughts expressed by poets and philosophers through the ages, and ordinary people alive today. The definitions expressed are pretty good. Two of the persons shown do not appear to have any serious illness. Nonetheless it is curious that the producer focused on love. Human services industry professionals assist people they declare disabled. Do they ever encourage them to enjoy love and romantic relationships as other people do?


Then there are three (of six) cable access television stations, CCTV, in Cambridge, MA (which receives about $1 million each year from the City). The executive director with a straight face explained to me that they could not find any features showing persons with disabilities to broadcast, as the reason why persons with disabilities seldom appeared on that station. That is Cambridge, MA the host city of Harvard University, MIT and Lesley University. The morally superior city which has a misguided self image as holier than thou.


Permanent host of PBS Greater Boston James Braude, former Cambridge, MA City Councilor omits persons with disabilities from appearing as guests on his show. He continues the tradition of Emily Rooney his predecessor.

Banning persons with disabilities is bad enough. The same show invites black people, women, homosexuals and Muslims to speak about how they experience discrimination. In Braude's mind everybody loves people with disabilities. Not so. They just don't think about them. For Braude every time there is a mass shooting he expresses a bigoted view, stereotyping people with disabilities as dangerous, violent and likely to take up arms and shoot up a theater or school. Braude objects vigorously to stereotyping black people, women, homosexuals and Muslims. But not so much for persons with disabilities, who he continues to insult on his taxpayer funded television show.

The same with CBS News' prestigous commentator, Andy Rooney's daughter, Emily Rooney. She was news director at WCVB-TV, Boston before she moved to public television. She now hosts a weekly show called Beat The Press, where her guests attack and ridicule conservative media errors, but ignore liberal bias. It is humorous to watch them make fools of themselves. Rooney refused to invite persons with disabilities on Greater Boston when she was the host. On Beat The Press she has a regular black lesbian, who hosts the Basic Black show, a few homosexuals, other black Harvard University elitists, but never, never anyone with a disability. For Rooney people with disabilities have no ability to repeat the liberal mantra and are unable to criticize, to listen to, or to read what is written, broadcast, published and posted online.

Taxpayer funded WGBH-TV, Boston's PBS station has a weekly show called Basic Black. Only upper class professional black people, e.g., professors, celebrities, journalists, are permitted on the show, which focuses on how black people can get more power and more money. They discuss how racist white people are, and how they enjoy privileges, which black people do not. People with disabilities are never seen on Basic Black or on WGBH, except as noted herein in recent days on independent shows. Not even black people with disabilities. That too is remarkable.

Harvard University when confronted with its bias against disability, marches out the few black disabled students they allow to matriculate. Never are white people with disabilities recognized at Harvard University. That is a fact. Over the past 20 years I am a tenant at a building owned and operated by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Harvard University campus police employees and building superintendents conducted and conduct a brutal criminal harassment campaign every day and every night. They disturb my sleep every one or two hours. They provoke, insult, ridicule, and humiliate me saying "He's crazy." But when I seek assistance from state and local taxpayer funded human services agencies they tell me, "There's nothing wrong with you." Their students tamper with my home computer, accessing it remotely to sabotage my use. For the elite at Harvard University and on public TV, disabled people are preferred targets for criminal abuse and bullying. No one listens to them and no one gives them a platform to petition for equal treatment by the four major approved victim groups.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/autism-in-love/

link to full video until April 10, 2016 9 [one hour, 13 minutes
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/autism-in-love/

Autism in Love
Independent Lens Production
Broadcast on WGBH-TV
Monday January 11, 2016

More broadcasts in  January 2016 see web page link above

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Filmmaker Sophie and her son Ben

Sophie and Ben
Short about disabled child, raised by alternative family.

Aunt Dona and Grandmother Mimi

Film maker Sophie recognized she was unable to be so unselfish to take care of her aunt as her grandmother took care of her aunt.

Her son Ben, was diagnosed as having autism, as she had a history of autism. Aunt Dona asked to leave public schools in second grade. Ben entered school in second grade.

Ben: "Differences are what makes us human. I mean, imagine if we were all the exact same person. The world would be a boring place! And now since, and since we have differences that makes the, that makes the world an entertaining, that makes the world unique. And I feel like autism and Asperger's Syndrome are just a difference, where your brain is built a different way, and it's completely fine to be different because it's what makes us human."

Taxpayer Funded Boston Public Television Bans Persons With Disabilities As Guests

Emily Rooney, daughter of CBS News celebrity, Andy Rooney. Long time host of WGBH-TV Boston PBS Greater Boston news show and former news director at WCVB-TV. As host on WGBH Rooney banned persons with disabilities as guests on her show, except allowing them to explain how much they loved their goods and services from the human services industrial complex (MA State Rep. Marie Parente's term).


New host, former Cambridge City Councilor, Jim Braude, continues Rooney's policy.

Glad to see that taxpayer funded WGBH presents a one-sided view of this issue. Adam Reilly interviews two extremist black supremacists for their analysis. They lament a white racist nation as they advocate on taxpayer funded TV with no opposition. Racist? Do they mean black racist? They act as if they are the only persons ever discriminated against. Maybe reading some history is in order for the Tufts University historian and the special interest communications corporate executive. For many years the three wealthy and politically powerful "victim" groups dominated the air time of taxpayer funded Greater Boston and other WGBH shows, while persons with disabilities remain banned from appearing on those shows. Why do Greater Boston and WGBH in general open their shows to full participation by three wealthy and politically powerful "victim" groups, while banning persons with disabilities from appearing on TV? The producers, directors, airhead anchors, and management appear to share the misguided, unlawful hateful beliefs that all persons with disabilities are ignorant and stupid. Shame on them for their continued extreme hatred toward persons with disabilities denying them access to taxpayer funded television. Shame on them after several years of bringing this unlawful bias on WGBH and PBS to their attention. The response was threats to have me banned from Boston media, which they did, adding criminal harassment by local supporters of the taxpayer funded radio and television, PBS and WGBH. and their three powerful and wealthy victim groups.


Greater Boston
June 16, 2015
Host: Adam Reilly
Segment on NAACP Leader, Rachel Dolezal, Passing As Black
Periel Joseph, Tufts University History Professor
Colette Phillips, CEO Communications Corporation






http://wgbhnews.org/post/boston-2024-updates-rachel-dolezal-surprising-nh-poll

EEOC Bureaucracy Lacks Common Sense

Bureaucrats have no common sense. If equal opportunity was the goal they would look at taxpayer funded entities for egregious abuses. WGBH-TV in Boston marginalizes persons with disabilities making it appear that black people are the only humans who experience discrimination. Though daily show Greater Boston always has a black panelist on its weekly Beat the Press show, the show has NEVER had a person with a disability as a panelist. Though WGBH-TV broadcasts Basic Black since 1968, an all black show, WGBH-TV has no programs supporting persons with disabilities. WGBH management boasts of broadcasting shows about providers of goods and services for persons with disabilities. The station itself prioritizes black victimhood over all other kinds of abuses. Seldom is disability rights the subject of a show broadcast on PBS.  

http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20220611eeocs_beautiful_mindlessness_feds_running_amok/



Photo by Matt Stone
Celtics Cheerleaders

EEOC’s beautiful mindlessness
Boston Herald
By Joe Fitzgerald
Monday, June 11, 2012

Overt Bias Against Persons With Disabilities

Bias at WGBH-TV, PBS, Emily Rooney, Greater Boston, Beat The Press

Beat The Press is a weekly PBS Boston (WGBH-TV) show criticizing media abuses, a regular feature of Greater Boston TV news show hosted by long term journalist Emily Rooney. The archives on the web pages for Beat The Press only go back to March 2009. It is not clear when this show began. But Ms. Rooney, former news director at WCVB-TV, and daughter of prominent CBS news journalist Andy Rooney, was put on notice by me that her shows exhibit open bias against persons with disabilities. Except for one ten-minute segment of one show she has never had any discussion of the pervasive bias against persons with disabilities. She regularly has discussions on discrimination against women, Black Americans and homosexuals but never for persons with disabilities.

On Friday September 2, 2011 the first show of the 2011-2012 season one of her journalist guests Kara Miller explained that when she was looking for her first job she noticed that one place had never had a woman journalist. She applied and got the job.

Beat The Press is very diverse, regularly having women, homosexuals, Black journalists, Asian journalists, Harvard and academic journalists as guests. Rooney has never had a guest journalist with a disability. Of course there may be journalists with disabilities who pass for normal. Few journalists openly admit they have a cognitive disability. The last time I suggested that Greater Boston was denying access to her shows for persons with disabilities, Ms. Rooney made it clear that she would have me banned from Boston. Since that threat I never had a letter published in the Boston Globe. Hmmm. She does have her power and influence and knows how to use it.

The issue is larger than Rooney and her news show. PBS is a taxpayer subsidized television operation. They should not be allowed to provide access to some vulnerable groups and exclude others. It is illegal. But that is what they do. The President of WGBH said that they do shows about disabilities. That may be true but it is always from the business perspective of corporations which provide goods and services to persons with disabilities.

The issue is not their policy allowing persons with disabilities to visit the station and to volunteer. The issue is giving them jobs as they gives jobs to other vulnerable groups. Disabled persons remain unemployed at a rate of 70 percent far above any of the other groups. The issue is to have persons with disabilities on screen talking about disabilities as PBS has Black Americans, women and homosexuals talking about their unique experiences. But PBS indicates it is unable to rid its management of its bias toward persons with disabilities. That is shameful.

Instead of criticizing other journalists, Beat The Press should do some self examination to see how biased their panelists are.

Does WGBH Deny Access to Persons With Disabilities?

How many employees of WGBH have a disability? What evidence is there that WGBH does not discriminate against persons with disabilities in hiring and in programming on-air content? Aside from allowing people with disabilities onto the property to volunteer what actual activities regarding television production and broadcasting does WGBH allow persons with disabilities to participate equally to other citizens and non documented workers?

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1608500504/Letter-WGBH-workers-are-our-greatest-asset#axzz1HsniSj3X

Letter: WGBH workers are our ‘greatest asset’
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Mar 29, 2011 @ 11:40 AM
Jon Abbott, President and CEO, WGBH

Liberal Boston PBS Station Opposes Unions

Boston PBS station does not pay property or income taxes but gets taxpayer funds for self promotion. Overpaid station management and prominent daughter of 60-Minutes journalist Emily Rooney favor wealthy and politically connected liberal groups for on-air content. The station openly excludes persons with disabilities from access to on-air content. They allow disabled persons to volunteer but deny them equal access to programming. Liberals support public employee unions, but PBS management tries to destroy WGBH union.

[From article]
"More than a dozen GBH honchos make more than $200,000 a year.
[. . .]
Last week, more than 100 members of GBH's largest union staged a noisy demonstration outside the "Taj Mahal," as the headquarters is sometimes called. Their complaint: GBH wants to outsource their jobs to nonunionized competitors."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/beantown_poster_child_for_pbs_excess_SDGlW0qmJe7j0YQaZPe4tN

Beantown poster child for PBS excess
By HOWIE CARR
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:13 AM, March 21, 2011
Posted: 10:27 PM, March 20, 2011

WGBH Discriminates Contrary To Law

In addition to not paying taxes or a PILOT, WGBH management discriminates against disability rights advocates. Talk show queen Emily Rooney refuses over several years to include persons with disabilities into her on-air programming. The elite public broadcasters boast of allowing persons with disabilities to volunteer at their posh digs. But they refuse to allow them access to the taxpayer funded public airwaves. WGBH favors as guests, corporate providers of goods and services to vulnerable persons. Wealthy victim groups with political clout e.g., the homosexual lobby, the African American lobby and the women's lobby regularly appear. See especially Rooney's Friday media watchers who are never persons with disabilities.

[From article]
"WGBH [is] dubbed the “Taj Mahal” by one critic.

[. . .]

Boston City Council President Stephen Murphy said WGBH isn’t behaving like a “good neighbor.”

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0311your_tax_dollars_turn_on_wgbh/srvc=home&position=1

Your tax dollars turn on WGBH

By Jessica Heslam
Boston Herald
Friday, March 11, 2011

Disability Discrimination Appears on TV Show


A television station in England had the audacity to allow a woman with one arm to host a children’s TV show. Parents express their hatred by demanding that they stop scaring their children. How intolerant some people are! What if parents said that black people were scaring their children? Would that be enough to keep them off the air? In this day and age this shows why so many radio and TV stations refuse to do any features about discrimination against Persons with disabilities. In Boston, MA the prominent host of a PBS news show refuses to do any shows on this issue. The former President of that station (WGBH-TV Boston MA) listed 100 shows on disabilities. They were all about providers of goods and services not about disabilities. Here is why. When I raised the further issue about persons accused of mental illness the issue was dropped and I was threatened.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1152466/One-armed-presenter-scaring-children-parents-tell-BBC.html

One-armed presenter is scaring children, parents tell BBC
By Liz Thomas
Mail (UK) Online
Last updated at 4:05 PM on 23rd February 2009

WGBH-TV is not equally accessible to all

WGBH-TV is not equally accessible to all

Suffolk Law Professor Renee Landers says "Public TV remains among our most trusted institutions [. . .] because it engages all citizens, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity or ability to pay." (Renee M. Landers, Boston Herald, Letter, March 7, 2008) Oh? Why does WGBH exclude persons with disabilities in their programming content?
WGBH's leading lady talk show host (Emily Rooney) threatened to ban me from Boston when I objected to her excluding disability based discrimination on her shows, while she includes racism, sexism and sexual preference bias. This is a station-wide problem indeed a society-wide problem, (including the courts, and the legal profession) which remains unaddressed.
Two Presidents of WGBH are in denial. They believe that health care for persons with disabilities is about discrimination. Huh? Is treatment of persons of color by doctors about racism?
My previous letters to Landers were ignored just like my letters to Rooney. The dictionary calls that bigotry.

Roy Bercaw - Editor ENOUGH ROOM

By Renee M. Landers
Boston Herald
Letter
Friday, March 7, 2008 - Added 5d 24h ago

Small Minded Journalist

Small Minded Journalist

Bailey's use of the word, "inadvertent" shows his bias on the issue of
Emily Rooney not inviting Jay Severin to the Grand Opening of the new WGBH
studios. (Steve Bailey, "At home, and all alone," Boston Globe, October 5, 2007)
Few one-party Massachusetts journalists recognize the small range of views
acceptable to Rooney on her show.
Here's one. After several letters asking why she never has guests on her
show
discussing rights of persons with disabilities, she wrote to me patronizing me
as if I were a mental patient.
After several letters to the President of WGBH asking why persons with
disabilities do not enjoy equal access to the content of what is broadcast on
(taxpayer funded) WGBH, he sent me a list of 100 programs about treatment,
health care and access to treatment. One show discussed physical disability
based discrimination.
I pointed out that Rooney often has on psychiatrists who boast of new or
experimental treatments. But she never has a person who was abused contrary to
state and US law by psychiatrists. Her response was that she wanted to have
debates two sides to discuss.
I often wonder if she thinks she fooled me. I noticed that frequently she
has
one person on her show discussing a controversial issue. Often she has
politicians on to promote themselves in an election. This she sees as a debate,
a one person debate? Is Rooney fooling herself or just trying fool others? Is
that what inadvertent means?
When Rooney finally had on a woman doctor and a member of the Boston
Disability Commission I wrote again mocking her crumb on the issue. Her response
was to threaten to ban me from Boston. She said she would write to others to
notify them. Is this woman a member of the Bulger crime family?-

Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM

At home, and all alone
Boston Globe
By Steve Bailey
October 5, 2007

Jay Severin, WTKK radio's libertarian loudmouth, is hurt - wounded really - and
Emily Rooney, WGBH-TV's thermally challenged queen bee, is off his show and his
station. Says Rooney: "I didn't think the punishment fit the crime."

Rooney's crime? Inadvertently leaving Severin off the invitation list for WGBH's
party last week marking the 10th anniversary of her show, "Greater Boston."
Everyone was there, even me.

"Dear Emily," Severin e-mailed Rooney on Wednesday evening just minutes before
the big event was to begin.

"As I imagine you well know, I do wish you congratulations on the most
impressive achievement of ten years on the air choreographing your own
presentation. Extraordinary.

"And please do not misconsture [sic] what I ask as mitigating in any way the
earnestness of my best wishes.

"However: I am very personally disappointed (although from what you have frankly
told me of WGBH's attitude toward myself, not necessarily greatly surprised) not
to have been among those from 96.9 to have been invited to the WGBH celebratory
event. After all, we are, I think, friends; and we do broadcast together here
weekly, for an audience which is very considerably larger than even your
television audience, correctr? [sic] It thus strkes [sic] me as fairly
appropriate that I might have anticipated being included - especially
considering others here at 96.9 were.

"Am I wrong and/or presumptuous to wonder why, under the circumstances, I am not
included?"

Since January, Rooney has done a weekly (paid) segment with Severin, discussing
the media. But on Friday, Rooney got a call from WTKK's program director, Grace
Blazer, telling her not to bother coming to the station. The segment was being
canceled; she cited "budgetary" issues, Rooney says. (Disclosure: I occasionally
appear on Rooney's "Beat the Press" show; I hope she was getting paid more from
WTKK than the $100 I get from WGBH.)

"I feel terrible about this. I honestly do. I literally lost sleep over it," she
says. As for Severin's snide remark about ratings or the lack thereof, Rooney
says: "I didn't understand how that was relevant to the issue."

Neither Severin nor Blazer returned my calls or e-mails.

In Severin's world, Hillary Clinton is "a lying [expletive]," Ted Kennedy is "a
fat piece of lying garbage," and Al Gore is "Al Whore." All things considered,
it's surprising the guy is asked out at all.

Jay Severin, WTKK radio's libertarian loudmouth, is hurt - wounded really - and
Emily Rooney, WGBH-TV's thermally challenged queen bee, is off his show and his
station. Says Rooney: "I didn't think the punishment fit the crime."

Rooney's crime? Inadvertently leaving Severin off the invitation list for WGBH's
party last week marking the 10th anniversary of her show, "Greater Boston."
Everyone was there, even me.

"Dear Emily," Severin e-mailed Rooney on Wednesday evening just minutes before
the big event was to begin.

"As I imagine you well know, I do wish you congratulations on the most
impressive achievement of ten years on the air choreographing your own
presentation. Extraordinary.

"And please do not misconsture [sic] what I ask as mitigating in any way the
earnestness of my best wishes.

"However: I am very personally disappointed (although from what you have frankly
told me of WGBH's attitude toward myself, not necessarily greatly surprised) not
to have been among those from 96.9 to have been invited to the WGBH celebratory
event. After all, we are, I think, friends; and we do broadcast together here
weekly, for an audience which is very considerably larger than even your
television audience, correctr? [sic] It thus strkes [sic] me as fairly
appropriate that I might have anticipated being included - especially
considering others here at 96.9 were.

"Am I wrong and/or presumptuous to wonder why, under the circumstances, I am not
included?"

Since January, Rooney has done a weekly (paid) segment with Severin, discussing
the media. But on Friday, Rooney got a call from WTKK's program director, Grace
Blazer, telling her not to bother coming to the station. The segment was being
canceled; she cited "budgetary" issues, Rooney says. (Disclosure: I occasionally
appear on Rooney's "Beat the Press" show; I hope she was getting paid more from
WTKK than the $100 I get from WGBH.)

"I feel terrible about this. I honestly do. I literally lost sleep over it," she
says. As for Severin's snide remark about ratings or the lack thereof, Rooney
says: "I didn't understand how that was relevant to the issue."

Neither Severin nor Blazer returned my calls or e-mails.

In Severin's world, Hillary Clinton is "a lying [expletive]," Ted Kennedy is "a
fat piece of lying garbage," and Al Gore is "Al Whore." All things considered,
it's surprising the guy is asked out at all.