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With such qualifications on their programming, WETA's response was to threaten no production at all unless CPB retracts its content control. "If the conditions become unbearable, as they apparently did for WETA," Rice commented, "WGBH itself may withhold production. The CPB board members are not our executive producers...
Within the past two weeks, the three major TV leadership groups merged into a new PBS in order to confront CPB as one united body. The new group has proposed the creation of a "monitering committee"--representing various factions in public TV, including CPB--with power to decide disputes over "balance and objectivity" in public affairs programming. They also reiterated that CPB must not assume control of the scheduling function of PBS. On April 13, CPB will announce whether or not it will accept this compromise. WGBH's Rice contents that. "The next two weeks may be the most crucial...
Just as the Watergate and ITT scandals have marred the Administration's credibility, the furor over the future of public TV has raised several perplexing questions. Are the CPB directives a concerted effort by the Administration to manipulate public affairs broadcasting to its own norms? Is there a master plan or are there several individuals who are separately attempting to extrapolate policy...
...whole controversy revolves around so many individual personalities and bureaucratic anomalies that oversimplified statements about First Amendments rights, executive power, and private ownership rights can be not only dangerously inaccurate but also inadequate as explanations. The CPB has provided so little reasoning for its actions that conjecture too often intercedes where fact should prevail. And we still question exactly where the White House stands and who, if anyone, is the mastermind behind the current explosion in governmental influence...
...Loomis up on his desire for more documentaries. The viewing public, along with 232 public TV stations, could profit from an in-depth study into why public broadcasting is becoming so politicized. The documentary might begin by examining why Senator Brooke was compelled to say on the Senate floor, "CPB is setting a very dangerous precedent. For when one hand controls the Federal funds and also controls distribution power for public television we will have in appearance and perhaps in fact a domestic Government network...