NY PBS flagship WNET settles a government audit into how it spent federal grant money and the NY Daily Rupert finds an excuse to do a "shut down PBS" editorial, dragging out the same tired excuse that cable's doing what PBS does better, which proves that the Post editorial board has not watched A&E since "Biography" got its own channel (at least they left Bravo out as an example of quality--too many "Real Housewives" articles, I suspect--but they do cite--chuckle, snort--Fixed Noise):
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/move_on_big_bird_0oNQjAvBevndzjkZC2izNK This of course, is a common theme around News Corp.--in the UK, Murdoch's lieutenants have called more than once for the BBC to sell off their mass appeal radio nets (Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio Five Live) and their more popular shows ("Doctor Who," "EastEnders," "Strictly Come Dancing (With the Stars)") to private sources (in the case of TV shows, we bet they want those shows to be sold to Murdoch's Sky One). I would assume that in Australia they have called many times for the dismantling of the ABC and SBS pubcasters. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
