Daily Gusto: A Class Act

May 21, 2004

A Class Act

Not to give the impression that all we're doing is watching PBS over here, but Bill Moyers gave a great interview with Texas Monthly on why he's leaving television and the future of PBS.

I intend to become much more of an advocate for public broadcasting than when I am on the air and seem to be acting in self-interest. As a private citizen, I'll be one of its most consistent and ardent supporters. We must get a $5 billion trust fund. We must sever our ties to federal funding. We pay a price when we're even slightly tethered to the taxpayers, to the Congress, to the political process.

What price?

For years we've been looking over our shoulders, worried that a chairman of an appropriations committee is going to get angry over some piece of programming. Self-censorship comes unintentionally and even unknowingly to the person who is aware that he is obligated to the government, but this is one of those times when journalism needs to get as close to the verifiable truth as possible. And when I do that, there's always a rumble. Every three or four years, critics of public broadcasting use my programming as the means to go after its funding.

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