public (subsidized) broadcasting service

a ny times editorial [bugmenot login]gets it right...for eight words anyway:

"The last thing Americans need is public broadcasting..."

unfortunately, the editorial continues with an alarmist 'republican takeover' angle.

a slate article by Jack Shafer details the politics, but also prescribes a solution: end the government subsidy

"The best remedy for this week's public broadcasting crisis isn't the dismantling of the 'objectivity and balance' firewall but the abolishment of the CPB itself. Bureaucracies inevitably conform to the wishes of the ruling party, and as much as CPB would like to rise above politics, every federal appropriation comes laden with political baggage."

in a media world with hundreds of channels, current 'public television' could find it's own niche.

¶ - nitish @ 3:11 PM