Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 8/31/03 7:14:03 AM, steve@streetphoto.net writes: << It is criminal how Discovery founder John Hendricks (yes I know John personnaly) stabbed the viewing audience in the back. It is well known here in Washington, DC (amongst those in the TV business) that the Discovery Channel has some of the sleeziest business tactics in all of television. >> Probably the best public TV is being done by C-Span. Why? Because no commercials appear on it. The deal was with the state governments that the cable outfits would provide free public service programs in their markets in exchange for the use of commercial channels over cable. Brian Lamb and his staff don't need to look over their shoulders. But they're confined to US politics, world literature and US history, radical or otherwise. They do no editorializing. PBS, by contrast, accepts huge gobs of money from corporations, which has a negative effect on open discussion -- except for Bill Moyers who nobody can get to because he has support from NGOs and university-based people and is deeply respected by most journalists. As a young man he stood up to Lyndon Johnson, didn't blink and quit his administration. He wouldn't lie as press chief for Johnson. I will not watch any program that is directly supported by advertising, such as the History Channel. PBS is indirectly supported by corpcrats and the ads appear only at the beginning and end of shows. They don't barge into and segment the body of the program. So PBS has some integrity left. Just one man's opinion. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html