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MOST GRIPPING SOAP OPERA: An American Family (PBS), about the Louds, which showed how the world turns in the upper-middle-class, California division...
MOST WELCOME SURVIVORS: the PBS public affairs shows whose funding was threatened by Administration-inspired pressure, notably Bill Moyers' Journal Firing Line and Washington Week in Review...
THURSDAY: Men Who Made Movies. PBS documentary series on producers and directors focuses tonight the great master, Hitchcock. The program concentrates on Hitchcock's terrify psychological method with clips for "Psycho," "Torn Curtain," "Shadow Doubt," "Frenzy," "North by Northwest and "Saboteur." CH.44 9 p.m. Color...
Bitter outrage at PBS and complex legal difficulties led to abortion of the plan. But, public television remained hopelessly stalemated as CPB demanded control of the network lines because it pays for them, and PBS demanded control because only it is authorized to use them. This spring, congressional pressure resulted in a compromise and a partial victory for presidential control. CPB will continue to control the network. CPB, in "consultation" with PBS, will decide what shows win Corporation funds. Questions of balance and objectivity in programming will be resolved by a joint CPB-PBS committee. The Nixon administration...
There is no easy solution to save public broadcasting. Increasing dependence on corporate grants is a step toward commercialism not welcomed by PBS. And there will be no help from the government for the duration of this administration, at least. Public television will always be threatened with similar pressure until the united States government is finally prepared to subsidize the arts without censoring political content...