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- From: tonym@world.std.com (Tony Matt)
- Subject: Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.031941.10357@gagme.chi.il.us>
- Originator: wdp@gagme
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- Sender: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:19:41 GMT
- Approved: rrb@airwaves.chi.il.us
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- In article <1992Dec19.093853.28947@gagme.chi.il.us> Michael j Strait
- <teach07@uc780.umd.edu> writes:
- >[Moderator's Note: There has been so much traffic about public broadccasting,
- >I thought I would re-post this long article from Internet Radio Journal 116,
- >last spring. ]
- >
- >
- >Subject: CPB 25th Anniversay Retrospective
- >
- > FUTURISTS PREDICT MORE VITAL ROLE
- > FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
- >[stuff deleted]
- >What If Public Broadcasting Had Never Been?
- >
- > The answer:
- >...
- > o no development of radio and television as powerful
- > forces to cope with social challenges through outreach
- > programming;
- >
- > o no multicultural programming, addressing the diverse
- > groups that make up the nation and creating bridges of
- > understanding among people of different cultural
- > heritage.
-
- If these statements mean to imply that no such programming exists or
- has existed on commercial radio and TV, I contend they're flat out wrong.
-
- Even if the intent is to claim that commercial stations would
- not have produced the above programming if it weren't for the existence
- of PB, then I find the claims at least presumtive. Isn't it (or wasn't
- it, anyway) required to produce and air public-affairs programs as part
- of operating in the public interest?
-
- For all its virtues and contributions, I find Public Broadcasting to be
- the most self-congratulatory and self-deceptive (introspectively)
- institution in the US. Am I alone in that opinion?
-
- >Michael J. Strait, Ph.D. Project Officer for Research and Evaluation
- >Annenberg/CPB Projects Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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