System/Policy
Public broadcasting’s unholy link to politics
A 1985 blowup over a trip to Moscow revealed that political animals were again entrusted with shielding public TV from political pressureGAO statement on NPR financial crisis, 1984
NPR was shaken, President Frank Mankiewicz and other top managers toppled and some 60 staffers laid off in the network’s 1983 financial ...JFK: facilities act will help lower barriers to education, 1962
Statement by President John Kennedy, May 1, 1962, upon signing the Educational Television Act, Public Law 87-447 (76 Stat. 64), which provided ...
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