Comments on: WHY PUBLIC TV FAILS THE PUBLIC

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:50:03 +0000

I posted on this. Worked once long ago for PBS and can avow that when we were asked to allow a five-minute rebuttal for a three-hour special on Arab culture on the Arabian peninsula by AIPAC, I became convinced that special interests drive CPB.

By: gregdn

gregdn — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:27:36 +0000

Government has no business funding the arts, period. I like Nova too, but I suspect it would be picked up by private concerns if public funding were to dry up.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:49:05 +0000

Great post. I read the article, with disgust, this morning about the Islam piece.

My husband is in the oil biz and we are quite used to being smacked by the likes of PBS.

That said, NOVA has been one of my husband’s favorite shows since it began years ago. He’s a science nerd and knows quality programming.

By: Bat One

Bat One — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:05:46 +0000

While it is certainly true that there have been some very worthwhile, and even extraordinary, programs on PBS, that rationale is little different than stating that the end justifies the means… a deeply troubling way of looking at things.

The very same folks who are up in arms over Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and the need to re-install the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” are awfully silent when the subject turns to the taxpayer funded, leftwing advocacy of PBS.