I regret that public broadcasting is becoming, more and more, a place
where Archer Daniel Midlands ponies up money to help obscure the company's
scummy record. For the rest of us to not support public broadcasting, of
course, just makes the stations more dependent on the ADMs of the world.
We should be lining up to support both public television and public radio,
and if we don't like to hear pledge drives on air, station managers are
becoming more and more open to suggestions that on-air fund raising be
limited to what necessary funds aren't forthcoming from simple
announcements.
Don H. Coombs