Re: Fwd: Talk Radio (was LTAR)

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 12:40 PM 6/18/2002, Garrett Wollman wrote:
><<On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:07:50 -0400, SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com> 
>said:
>
> > That doesn't explain the leftist slant to most public broadcasting.  Most
> > large corporations tend to lean more to the right.
>
>A large chunk of the funding comes from foundations with an agenda.
>The commercial underwriters are just advertisers like anyone else, but
>the foundations often have a great deal of involvement in the creation
>and editorial style of the program.  (See, for example, all of the
>[health care | campaign finance | religion] reporting that's funded by
>Pew.  This didn't come about by chance: the Pew Trusts intentionally
>sook out programs which would take their money in exchange for adding
>regular coverage of [health-care | campaign-finance | religious]
>issues.  I don't know if Pew have any particular `slant' on any of
>these topics.)
>
>-GAWollman


You know - I can't remember every hearing a report critical of GE airing on 
Marketplace, either.  And GE's sponsored them for a LONG time...

Of course, I haven't listened to Marketplace much since WBUR dumped it - 
only sporadically listened since it came back.


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