Commitment to Change Needed Before Helping PBS

COMMITMENT TO CHANGE NEEDED BEFORE HELPING PBS
[SOURCE: Digital Destiny, AUTHOR: Jeff Chester]
[Commentary] Groups such as Moveon.org and others have rightly responded to the proposed Bush Administration budget slash to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. While reversing the cuts is necessary, it is too early to support any permanent funding plan. More money won't cure PBS’s problems. It will just enable the network to display higher-priced collectibles on Antiques Roadshow. The system needs to be restructured so the public interest is better guaranteed via a truly non-commercial approach. We also must think beyond today’s PBS and NPR to ensure there will be funding to support a much more expansive and diverse non-commercial digital environment.
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