Reply #7: The target, PBS

[PATRICK]

had been growing at the same time as Snidely Whiplash was rubbing his hands and getting ready to get his stooge in. It backfired instead of turning it into an easy CNN style walkover.

Which proves that public financed and backed news, even more easy going and moderate, has more journalistic stamina as an organization and in its listeners than any of the miserable failures in the private sector. The comparison is dramatic. ALL the funding comes from donations and government grants. Browbeating by Congress has real teeth. The private donors are still many GOP corporate entities.

This a couragEOUS PROOF that people and the concept of civic institutions not run by or for corporate profit is a stronger and healthier venue. All the more since we are talking about a moderate center who does not see the dangers or the false viewpoints that have seeped easily into content.

CNN caved on election day. Caved publicly with craven humiliation into a FOX wannabe. And the effect of this betrayal on its viewers and its standards has been equally stark. So much for corporate news networks.