The article "Happy Birthday, Public Broadcasting!" is first of all, very bias. There were hardly any facts to back up the Jerold Starr's point. Aside from that, the article did bring up a few interesting points that relate to independent journalism.
First of all, there is this ideal that all things outside of the paper realm are meant to be like a newspaper. In paragraph eight, Starr said:
KQED itself produced scores of documentaries and offered a "Newspaper of the Air" that featured local reporters commenting on the news items of the day.
As independent journalists know, news doesn't just come in the form of printed word. News comes in packages, sound slides, videos and quotes.
Secondly, after hearing that the U.S. pays only $1 per person for public broadcasting, I understood the need for a trust fund.
But if there is an agency that is in control of the funding, will there be an agency in control of the content broadcasted?
One thing that's nice about independent media that is listener-supported is that the audience gets the issue's it thinks are important covered. If that were to change, watching PBS would be like watching any other government sponsored show.
And that's a threat no independent journalist wants to hear.
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