Word: profited
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Public TV's defenders, too, are marshaling their forces and arguments. Bill Moyers, speaking to a press conference this month, caustically noted the role that for-profit cable networks -- PBS's competitors -- have played in providing a platform for Gingrich's attacks: the new House Speaker has his own show on National Empowerment Television, a conservative cable network, and was recently inveighing against the CPB in an hourlong interview on C-SPAN. Moyers expressed suspicion of "publicly supported politicians in the service of a commercial industry that, frankly, would like to see public television not exist...
...impropriety. When Gingrich and Murdoch met, their aides say, the Speaker was unaware that Murdoch owned HarperCollins, and Murdoch had no idea that his company was negotiating for Gingrich's books. Yet even Republicans are worried by the lingering suggestion that the Speaker is looking to make a profit on his new fame. Thomas Mann, a scholar of Congress at Washington's Brookings Institution, predicts that continuing controversy over the deal will force Gingrich to give up the book project entirely or donate all its proceeds to charity...
Licensing a patent to a company can be a complex legal process. While he was provost, Leverett Professor of Political Economy Jerry R. Green headed the Committee for Science Policy, which looked at the relationship between the for-profit world and research funding...
...committee examined ways in which the University accepts funding from for-profit companies and develops "safeguards to protect academic integrity," Green says...
Still, the networks are busy looking for new ways in which they can profit from the afterlife of their shows. NBC is engaged in exploratory talks with Ted Turner, the Atlanta cable entrepreneur who has long hankered to own a broadcast network. NBC views Turner's cable networks TBS and TNT as a promising market for NBC reruns. Explains network president Braun: "Historically, what's always happened is that the broadcast networks create the value for a show and the third parties are able to exploit it in the aftermarket. Now the networks can participate in the value they create...