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June 20, 2005
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What Should the Purpose of Public Broadcasting Be?
Jeff Jarvis discusses the ongoing controversy over severe cuts in the federal budget for public broadcasting and offers his own solutions (Saving Public Broadcasting). I'm not so sure many of them would work, but I do agree that we need to rethink public broadcasting:
: Reexamine the mission of public broadcasting in an era when the public can broadcast.
: Reexamine the mission of public broadcasting and when cable provides so much more value, like historical and educational programming (and I'm sorry that 11 percent of the country don't get TV via cable but, hey,
We really should reexamine the mission of public broadcasting, not only in the context of cable, but in the context of the internet and the coming of
broadcatching. Perhaps we may want to figure out how to democratize distribution, rather than subsidize flawed distribution schemes.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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1. Seth Finkelstein on June 20, 2005 12:12 PM writes...
Sounds like confusing public (interest) broadcasting with public-access cable. Note public-access cable hasn't exactly been a media revolution.
Permalink to Comment2. Ernest Miller on June 20, 2005 12:23 PM writes...
Public access cable hasn't been a revolution, but then again that doesn't mean public (interest) broadcasting has been all that great a success either, or remains necessary.
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