http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/16380/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/pbs-alum-robert-macneil-slams-fundamentalism-kennedy-center-speech <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/kristen-fyfe">Kristen Fyfe</a> </div> </div> </div> <p >In a March 13 essay, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Washington Post</i> writer Philip Kennicott applauds former PBS newsman Robert MacNeil for leveling “sustained criticism” at religious fundamentalism in a speech to Americans for the Arts in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state></st1:place>  </p> <br /> <p >Kennicott salutes MacNeil for “lament[ing] the influence of fundamentalism on science education, individual freedoms and the larger public dialogue about the hot-button moral and political issues of the day.”  </p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/pbs-alum-robert-macneil-slams-fundamentalism-kennedy-center-speech" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Culture Education Arts fundamentalism RobertMacNeil WahigtonPost Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:00:00 +0000 admin 27897 at http://archive2.mrc.org