Monday, August 01, 2005
Brought to You By the Letters C, V, and S
Hey, look! The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is going to be funding a media orgy to help students learn about politics! That's pretty good... right?
But an emphasis by corporation officials on how corporate investors could profit from the project has provoked controversy about the role commercial interests will play in the initiative and hints at new areas of conflict in public broadcasting's reliance on private-sector support.
That's right; for all of Tomlinson's blab about the "liberal bias" of PBS, he's ready to whore out to whichever corporate interest ponies up the most cash. I mean, I'm not against corporate funding of educational initiatives; hell, that's one of the reasons I admire Andrew Carnegie. But when the guy behind the initiative tries to sell the program as "a Trojan horse to get into the school system", my confidence kind of flags.
But an emphasis by corporation officials on how corporate investors could profit from the project has provoked controversy about the role commercial interests will play in the initiative and hints at new areas of conflict in public broadcasting's reliance on private-sector support.
That's right; for all of Tomlinson's blab about the "liberal bias" of PBS, he's ready to whore out to whichever corporate interest ponies up the most cash. I mean, I'm not against corporate funding of educational initiatives; hell, that's one of the reasons I admire Andrew Carnegie. But when the guy behind the initiative tries to sell the program as "a Trojan horse to get into the school system", my confidence kind of flags.
