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...House speaker justifies his crusade on the grounds that taxpayers shouldn't have to "subsidize something that [tells] them how to think." And, of course, don't forget that PBS is the epitome of what Gingrich absolutely-deplores: "the liberal media...
...Sesame Street" aside, members of Congress have expressed outrage about some other PBS programs, including a documentary on gay culture and AIDS made by the recently deceased filmmaker Marlon Riggs. They have conveniently ignored that the film was not forced onto unwilling local networks: about 100 of the 350 station affiliates declined to air it. Contrary to the current rhetoric, no network is forced to show a particular program...
...despite Gingrich's protestations to the contrary, there clearly is a way to lift the financial burden off of Washington and preserve PBS. As independent public television producer Alvin Perlmutter pointed out in a New York Times editorial, simply charging commercial TV and radio broadcasters one percent of their gross annual revenues for the use of their channels would raise $260 million--just $25 million shy of the $285 million granted annually by Washington...
This suggestion will probably never be able to survive in a Congress bent on privatization. And in reality, economics aren't really the issue--politics are. PBS doesn't go well with the new emphasis on shrinking government and slashing welfare. After all, Henry Hampton's upcoming five-hour documentary series, "America's War on Poverty," might just hit the new members of Congress a little too hard, with its focus on the failures and severe cutbacks of the Reagan administration...
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