PBS vs. Congress: selling out?
Now that PBS president Pat Mitchell is leaving, publisher Alberto Ibarguen tells the Times that with his budgets in a steady decline, pretty soon, “you can’t afford to take risks.” So whose fault is that? The Times correctly identifies how conservative Congressmen terrified of Liberals for years have pressured the House that Moyers Built.
But the identity crisis runs much deeper than that, because Mitchell never had a clear vision of what she wanted the company to be: Was it to stay a fuzzy liberal holdover from the 1970s? Become a copycat HBO? Or some Frankenhybrid nobody wants to watch? Recently, PBS famously yanked a children’s program where a rabbit named Buster visited a pair of lesbian parents.
So
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