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Last week a second Carnegie Commission issued another report to correct the system's "fundamental flaws." Though it has some good ideas, Carnegie II is, like Carnegie I, excessively timid, short on vision and long on words-particularly long words...
...Carnegie report asks more money, increased independence
Twelve years ago, a Carnegie Commission report became the basis for the public broadcasting system...
...many standards the Carnegie model was an astonishing success. The number of TV stations grew from 126 to 280; more than 40% of all families in the U.S. now watch public TV at least once a week. In other respects, the Carnegie report paved the way to failure, and the organization Congress set up has become a bureaucratic maze and a frustration to everyone who enters...
...most visible change Carnegie II recommends would be the enormous increase in funding. Public broadcasting now receives $540 million from all sources; the report wants to raise that to $1.16 billion a year by 1985, about half of which would come from Washington. To offset a new drain on the Treasury, the commission proposes that commercial broadcasters be charged between $150 million and $200 million for the right to use the public air waves. Local stations would be expected to drum up $1.50 for each $1 that they received from the Government...