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...humbly submit that there are more important issues facing this land. Given current federal deficit extrapolations, when many of these baby/appendages grow into taxpaying adults in about 2015 they will be very angry with those who did not abort them. It would serve our nation very well to channel the energy being expended in San Jose, Philadelphia and Jackson, Miss, towards the problems of those who can already see the light of day and the grim realities it brings...
...networks. You could watch Gomer Pyle or Land of the Giants or Lawrence Welk. Public TV was singular, glorious, redemptive. Today, of course, there is a democratic hurly- burly glut of cable and home video. Imagine if Americans had been presented in 1968 with a referendum: either a single channel broadcasting a mix of news, documentaries, children's shows and performance, or else a dozen intermittently worthy channels, two with nothing but news, two with nothing but congressional sessions, one with nothing but kids' shows, several with music, two with nothing but science and nature programs...
Devoted viewers also crave the reassurance of the status quo. It's not just Rumpoles and films of elk that compel many PBS maniacs; rather, they like the sense of belonging to a tweedy club, of feeling urbane by virtue of the TV channel they watch. There are apparently fewer and fewer such people, however: between 1987 and 1992, public TV lost 22% of its prime-time audience, twice the decline of commercial networks...
...remaining unassailable argument for public TV is, as Lawson says, that "it's free and universally available." Not every American can afford entry to the zillion-channel cable nirvana. But if universal access is now the compelling problem -- and it will only get more acute -- why not address it directly by subsidizing cable TV for poor people, a means-tested "cable stamps" program. After all, public TV began as a Great Society scheme, and Sesame Street was intended to uplift ghetto children. The opera shortage, on the other hand, may no longer be a crisis deserving federal attention...
Breaking ranks with the other networks, ABC will allow Continental Cablevision, the nation's third largest cable operator, to carry ABC-owned broadcast stations without paying it a fee; in return, the cable company has agreed to carry and pay for a new cable channel, ESPN2, a spin-off of ESPN, which ABC's parent company owns...