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When will Congress take the “public” out of the Public Broadcasting System? A subsidiary of New York City’s PBS station, Channel 13, has agreed to pay back nearly $1 million after the US attorney filed a civil grant-fraud lawsuit. Prosecutors charged that the Educational Broadcasting Corp., which produces programming for Channel 13, “made false or fraudulent claims” and “submitted false statements” regarding $1.2 million in federal grants between 2001 and 2008. As a result, the suit alleged, EBC (which was not forced to admit wrongdoing) “received monies to which it is not entitled” — whatever that means. And taxpayers won’t...

A documentary perspective of the news industry is the topic of "Fear and Favor in the Newsroom" recently replayed on World Link TV, A DISH Satellite TV public channel. The program is fairly informative and the channel located in the far end spectrum associated with televised secondary education programming. The perspective of the program tends to be left to far left in its projected implications, although spoken as though only the left is a neutral reporting position. The program was made circa 1996. No criticism is rendered to left leaning reporting, but repetitive slants against programs such as McNeil-Lehrer Newshour...

First Lady Columba Bush Helps Launch New Educational Teen Television Show: "Choices" PALM BEACH--First Lady Columba Bush and Florida's Office of Drug Control Director Jim McDonough hosted the launch of a new education teen television show "Choices" at Palm Beach Garden High School today. The "Choices" program will follow the lives of a teen-age cast as they struggle through the turbulence and frustration of the teen-age years. The interactive series is being distributed to middle and senior high schools throughout Florida. "I am so pleased to see this diverse group of young people participating in a show that will...