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...incredulous reply when told of this.) What this cynical proposal would accomplish would be to tax museums - and therefore art education - in order to let speculative investors continue in their present blaze of laissez-faire. In fact, museums do not "make their living" on exhibitions. They are nonprofit organizations that exist in order to present shows - and the distinction matters a lot, because the role of museums is neither to speculate in art nor to make excess money by exhibiting it. (Were this not so, gifts to museums would not be tax-deductible and one of the main sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A Modest Proposal: Royalties for Artists | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

Family Radio, a nonprofit religious company located in Oakland, Calif., bought the station from Oakland neighbor Kaiser Broadcasting Inc. in late January...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: FCC to Consider Granting Hearing on WCAS Dispute | 3/5/1974 | See Source »

...enjoyable air travel might eventually pose a threat to the profit-making entrenched airlines. So the club sticks carefully to the rules, thus preventing a possible dispute by irritated airlines, and employs lawyers in Washington, New York and Los Angeles to insure that Freelandia doesn't lose it's nonprofit status...

Author: By Sarah K. Lynch, | Title: Flying High on Air Freelandia | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

...nonprofit, nonpartisan council decided to look into Nixon's complaint. Discussions with Press Secretary Ron Ziegler and Ken Clawson, now director of White House communications, turned up six general areas of alleged TV bias, including coverage of the Christmas 1972 bombing of Hanoi and the "unfavorable" comments that accompanied news reports of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's ouster last October. The council dutifully assembled abstracts of network evening news shows and commentaries that touched on the six subjects and requested that Ziegler then tell it which of the approximately 200 specific segments the President considered "outrageous, vicious, distorted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Short Takes | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Shining Example. Most reviewers praised NBC for its journalistic enterprise. (The show later received a George Foster Peabody Award as a "shining example of constructive and superlative investigative reporting.") But Accuracy In Media, a nonprofit, nonpartisan (though generally conservative) group in Washington that acts as a self-appointed watchdog on press performance, protested. AIM Executive Secretary Abraham H. Kalish, a former professor at the U.S. Defense Intelligence School, formally complained to the FCC that the NBC program gave "a grotesquely distorted picture" of the private pension systems in the U.S. He contended that AIM'S monitoring of NBC programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who Decides Fairness? | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

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