roundtable: Re: PUBLIC TV and PBS

roundtable: Re: PUBLIC TV and PBS

Re: PUBLIC TV and PBS

David (david@apts.org)
Wed, 4 Jan 95 17:48:35 -0400 

Subject: Re: PUBLIC TV and PBS 
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: David <david@apts.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 95 17:48:35 -0400
Message-Id: <950104.174835.769@apts.org>


>Where there is dependency, there is influence (also known as "control.") 
>Program subject choices are (partially) dependent on "the ability to 
>attract funding."  Much funding comes from corporations who have the 
>needed resources.  Since PBS depends, then, on these corporations, the
>corporations possess influence (and may even exercise it at times.)
>I like PBS, but I also recognize its dependent status.
> 
>Financial dependency may not qualify as "institutional" control, but it
>is still a form of control.  
>
>Hans Klein
><hkklein@MIT.EDU>


If financial dependency is control then there is no one, and no 
activity that is not controlled by someone else.

David Brugger, America's Public Television Stations, Washington, DC
david@apts.org

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