Last week I posted the reply PBS sent me denying that the “Islam versus the Islamists” series had been spiked for political reasons. In today’s Washington Times, the program’s producer Martyn Burke offers a quite convincing case (as has Frank Gaffney ) that it was. Excerpt:

• They [PBS/WETA] commissioned, without my knowledge, another film to cover some of the identical subject matter we were covering in one of our major stories. It threw our production into chaos as we found ourselves battling another “Crossroads” show for the same (confused) interview subjects. • They hired as an adviser an active, outspoken supporter of one of the very groups we were investigating. We had a story about how the Saudi fundamentalists in Mecca and Riyadh were funneling money through the Saudi Embassy in Washington to the Nation of Islam in Chicago. They appointed a Chicago professor, an open supporter of the Nation of Islam, as one of our “advisers.” When we protested this as a blatant conflict of interest to which no journalists should be subjected in a free society, we were met with a wall of silence.

It’s worth reading the whole letter. This thing smells.