Having to point out that they are going to create a "conservative" show, that - by itself - is admission that all their previous BS has been left/liberal/communism.
To an extent, this is somewhat true in terms of quantity of broadcast programs. However, it's really not so simple.
Firing Line was broadcast from 1966-1999, and went through 3 different formats. That's 33 years of conservative discussion and/or meaningful ideological debate, with over 1,500 episodes.
While PBS broadcast Bill Moyers through various series, it also broadcast Ben Wattenberg's "Think-Tank" and related documentaries throughout the 1990s on up to the close of the Bush administration, shortly before Wattenberg's retirement.
Documentaries like "America at a Crossroads" had Richard Perle defend and debate the merits of the Iraq War in its really messy phase in the latter half of the 2nd Bush term.
But what PBS has been able to do that Fox News and the like haven't, is actually elevate the work of those conservatives who aren't trying to make a name for themselves by being television show anchors or those making pithy comments squeezed in between the Rush Limbaugh model news commentary broadcast.
The conservative think tank world is fairly well financed and can be given grants by organizations like the John Olin Foundation and companies like Pfizer to do television content that would, in turn, be broadcast on public television.
They just become better programs than what Fox News or CNN could deliver to its audiences, regardless of political orientation or ideology. PBS just can pump out better television.
The closest thing I have seen private news stations do in having that style of content is CNN's Zakaria GPS, and he's not exactly who you would look to to provide conservative thought exercises.
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