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In an op-ed in today's "wall street journal," republican senator jim demint tries to flesh out his case for public funding for broadcasting. the house voted to do that last month. today senator demint helped introduce a bill to do the same. anyway, in his supporting op-ed he takes particular offense at some of the six-figure salaries paid out to executives at the corporation for public broadcasting known oz pbs and in pr. so we're going to use that as a springboard to look at the big picture here, the numbers, of course, but also the history and the mechanisms of public broadcasting in this co...

And support of public telecommunications are also of appropriate and important concern to the federal government. and, it is necessary and appropriate for the federal government to complement, assist, and support a national policy that will make public telecommunications services available to all citizens of the united states. so that's the backstory. that's how pbs was born. cpb is funded by the federal government. it doesn't produce or distribute programming. it gets some of the federal funding to outlets like pbs and pr. by law, almost three-quarters of the money goes directly to local stat...