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GEORGE WILL
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
03-02-2005

We no longer need public television
GEORGE WILL
Date: 03-02-2005, Wednesday
Section: OPINION
Edtion: All Editions

IN 1967 Lyndon Johnson added yet another piece to the jigsaw puzzle of national perfection: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was born. Public television was a dubious idea even when concocted as a filigree on the Great Society. Why should government subsidize the production and distribution of entertainment and, even worse, journalism? Even if there were - has there ever been? - a shortage of either in America, is it ...

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