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PBS Responds to FAIR Petition
More than 14,000 have called for hard-hitting public journalism
1/26/10
FAIR presented a petition with more than 11,000 names to PBS on January 13, calling for worthy replacements for the exiting programs Bill Moyers Journal and Now. In all, 14,462 people signed the petition, including names added after it was delivered to PBS.
In a January 22 response, PBS described its new Friday night offering, Need to Know, but gave no indication of whether the program will continue the hard-hitting tradition of its predecessors.
Corporate Communications director Jan McNamara wrote that "PBS is committed to maintaining the highest level of news and public affairs programming" and that "changes to our current schedule are necessary to make it possible for us to experiment with different formats and programming content, both on-air and online."
The new program, Need to Know, will be an "integrated broadcast and online current affairs project" that "will feature documentary-style field reports, both domestic and international, short features and studio-based interviews and conversation to complement and advance the produced reports."
Read more:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4003 - includes full text of the letter sent from PBS
I watched Moyers last weekend. He's an excellent, articulate interviewer and commentator, and I hope that PBS keeps showing high-quality programs like his.
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