roundtable: Re: PUBLIC TV and PBS

roundtable: Re: PUBLIC TV and PBS

Re: PUBLIC TV and PBS

David (david@apts.org)
Sat, 7 Jan 95 10:23:41 -0400 

Subject: Re: PUBLIC TV and PBS 
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: David <david@apts.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 95 10:23:41 -0400
Message-Id: <950107.102341.831@apts.org>


>If there is ever to be any hope for anything approaching a non-influenced 
>programming, it can only come by taking the following steps:
>
>1:  Take all the money currently being donated by the U.S. Government to 
>the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and put it into an interest 
>bearing account.
>
>Imagine...locally produced programs of high technical excellence by 
>people receiving training and experience...with no outside influences 
>..gee...wouldn't that be a treat?
> 
>Jennifer Warren
>VM Productions
><tjwarren@netcom.com> 


Jennifer:

The US Government does not donate money.  It does hold hearings, 
authorizes the amount of funds that can be requested and for what 
purposes they can be spent, holds hearings, appropriates the amount of 
funds to be spent and how they may be spent, asks for an accounting of 
those funds, audits the expenses, receives reports, and then holds 
hearings to decide whether to repeat the process.

For the last 30 years I have raised funds from every conceivable source.  
Nowhere are there funds that come without strings of some sort.  

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

[CNI Home Page]