That's the suggestion of the head of a prestigious journalism think tank. He says providing that kind of an endowment from private sources would allow PBS to produce truly excellent television journalism, and that, he says, would raise the bar for the rest of TV. I doubt it. There are already examples of excellent journalism on TV (can you say 60 Minutes?), and commercial newsrooms are still glued to police scanners and Brittney Spears (or whoever the tart du jour is). Still, you gotta know there are some palpitating hearts at PBS imagining the possibilities.
Wunderbar!
ReplyDelete"Raise the bar for the rest of" teevee?
I too, doubt it.
Merely throwing money at any problem or issue will not, cannot and will never solve or resolve the issue or problem.
Of course, a source of funding is important, but as one leg of that proverbial three-legged-stool, it can neither be removed or shortened without affecting the whole.