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Article: WHY PUBLIC BROADCASTING IS STILL SUBSIDIZED.(FRONT)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 20, 1996
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Byline: GLENN ALLEN SCOTT
A little more than a year ago, Republican U.S. Sen. Larry Pressler of South Dakota, as the new chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, set out with gusto to ``zero out'' federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Privatize public broadcasting, he cried. Let it fend for itself - surely it can do that.
Now the senator is in the congressional vanguard suggesting ways to preserve public broadcasting, which derives 14 percent of its revenue from the federal treasury, as a not-for-profit option to commercial television. We have a gracious plenty of the latter and are destined to get more, for better or for worse. ...