Ms. Cummings – People deny doing things all the time. I do not accept one person’s word on a blog comment where you haven’t even provided a link. Besides, I questioned the motive, I did not say they were fired because they wouldn’t play Barton’s video series. In any case, you have one person who was fired saying one thing and the person who did the firing saying another. Why do you accept one person versus another?

J Chris Cochran (friends with Hank Sanders) commented on a link:

J Chris wrote: “Don’t know if this is any help but… Rodney Herring returned my call from his office in Opelika. He seemed polite and responsive to my questions. He stated that the “managerial decision” (i.e., the discussions as to whether they would terminate Allen Pizzato and Pauline Howland) was placed on the board’s agenda ahead of Pizzato’s response as to whether APT would air “Wall-builders,” a controversial pseudo-historical series featuring David Barton, an evangelical minister and conservative activist who consistently promotes his revisionist theories about the religious/Christian intentions of America’s founders. Herring claims that, based on the board’s pre-set agenda and the subsequent timing of the board’s decision to terminate Pizzato and Howland, he did not know that Pizzazo had refused to air the Wall-builders series out of a concern that airing it would violate APT’s charter. Herring, a Republican Party official and GOP donor, did not deny submitting the controversial series for broadcasting consideration; he did, however, flatly deny that the decision to terminate Pizzato and Howland was based on their decision not to air the Wall-builder’s series, stating instead that the decision to terminate Pizzato and “the other employee” was simply a “change in direction in management.” Herring stated that the 7 member board “voted 5 to 2 to make the change.” Herring added that “Ferris [Stephens] would be the best person [on the Board] to articulate the various reasons for the desired change in management.” Herring concluded by stating that the employees “were thanked for their service” but that “you can’t do all things for all people.””

Pizzato and his staff had “grave concerns” that the videos were inappropriate for public broadcasting due to their religious nature, Howland said.

The article doesn’t say anything about the accuracy of the DVDs.