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...public TV is increasingly putting on pop crud. Why is it so civilizing to underwrite broadcasts of Wall Street Week, Cary Grant movies, John Bradshaw new age lectures, the powerfully annoying Barney -- or Lawrence Welk reruns, which are now shown on 77% of PBS stations. Chief PBS programmer Jennifer Lawson says, disingenuously, that the Welk shows are legitimate as "an alternative to violence and gratuitous sex on commercial television." Local stations find it's those shows at the not-exactly-Susan-Sontag end of things that inspire subscribers to send in money. But isn't that, to use a trope...
...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...
...involved with taking care of people," says Lawson. "It was during that period of time that I got involved with pediatrics...
...Jennifer Lawson, executive vice president for programming at PBS, told the audience of more than 400 that the nation needs a "new vision for television...
...WHEN LAWSON BROWN SET OUT to reinvest his family's $70,000 nest egg a few months ago, the Minneapolis, Minnesota, probation officer found his options limited. Brown, 39, considered mutual funds to be "unexciting." Certificates of deposit? "Get real," he says. "Not with bank rates of 3%." Bonds? "Same problem." The only alternative, he says, was the stock market. He took the plunge, scoring short-term gains in high-tech stocks and banking issues, which lulled him into a sense of security. Now he and other investors are getting a loud wake-up call from the market's bumpy...