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Is PBS Still Necessary?  A Response

February 19, 2008 @ 10:02 am by Angela Carone
Filed under: The Media

For the last couple of days, I've had many people send me Charles McGrath's editorial on the relevancy of PBS in today's media market.  In light of the many emails and discussions I overhead in the hallways here at the station, I asked KPBS Program Director for Television, Keith York to respond to McGrath's editorial.  He sent me the following thoughts:

New York Times writer Charles McGrath asks the perennial question, in light of recent stabs at CPB appropriation in the recent Bush administration budget proposal, is public television still necessary? McGrath’s question isn’t any more thought-provoking than when Newt Gingrich questioned the institution’s existence a decade and a half ago. Unimpressed by the basic premise, I should also add that a few of his facts are either incorrect or poorly contextualized.
 
Thankfully the article is nothing more than an editorial. Causing many readers to ask themselves “Are newspapers still necessary?”
 

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