roundtable: Re: Nonprofit Culture

roundtable: Re: Nonprofit Culture

Re: Nonprofit Culture

Michael Chui (mchui@cs.indiana.edu)
Fri, 25 Mar 1994 08:44:25 -0500 

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Subject: Re: Nonprofit Culture 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Mar 1994 05:23:40 EST."
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 08:44:25 -0500
From: Michael Chui <mchui@cs.indiana.edu>

glarson@tmn.com (Gary O. Larson) writes:
>MG, again:  "I strongly agree that commercial programmers should be 
>taxed to support noncommercial programming.  Free or reduced rate 
>access without money (with no strings attached) going into programming 
>is going to replicate the PBS model, where corporate sponsers insure a 
>'safe' product."
>
>Not only "safe," but BIG--institutional-based expression that's often
>quite breathtaking, but also incomplete, overlooking both the 
>experimental R&D work that goes on in smaller, seat-of-the-pants 
>operations (PS 122 or Painted Bride, for example, as opposed to the 
>Kennedy Center) and the small-scale traditional (a gospel choir, for 
>example, as opposed to the Met).

     I'd like to point out the assumption that agencies distributing
tax funds will be more likely to fund small and less "safe" projects
than other institutions, an assumption I agree with in some cases, and
not in others.  The distribution of those cases would probably change
with the election of President Helms or President Simon.  :-)

Michael Chui
mchui@cs.indiana.edu

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