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PBS CEO misleads us about community control of public tv

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Uploaded by on Oct 25, 2007

In an interview conducted by veteran Chicago journalist Carol Marin broadcast on October 18, 2007 on Chicago public television station WTTW, Paula Kerger, the President and CEO of PBS, claimed that all local public TV stations are controlled by their communities. The reality is that no so-called "community" public TV station in the U.S. has even one regular station trustee seat that is filled through direct election by the public.

A glance at the makeup of the self-selecting trustees of Chicago's WTTW for example shows the station to be dominated by elites and the moneyed class. Not the community.

Read more here: http://www.chicagomediaaction.org//news.php?id=577

More about PBS here: http://themediastructurefailed.zoomshare.com/files/z_sept_07.pdf

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