Eugenia Williamson, PBS Self-Destructs. Harper’s, October 2014. (Subscription only, but non-subscribers can read one article per month as guests.) “Last October, I watched as a passel of activists convened in front of WGBH, Boston’s public-television station. There were about three dozen of them on the concrete forecourt…. WGBH employees, as well as cameramen and reporters on hand to cover the protest, weaved through the crowd. The grassroots climate-change group Forecast the Facts had organized the rally as an attempt to expel David Koch from the station’s board of trustees. The members had collected and printed out 120,000 digital signatures and placed them in boxes, which they planned to present at that afternoon’s board meeting. ”
May 27, 2013
A Word From Our Sponsor: Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
Jane Mayer, A Word From Our Sponsor. The New Yorker, 27 May 2013. “Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch…. For decades, federal funding for public broadcasting has been dwindling, and the government’s contribution now makes up only twelve percent of PBS’s funds. Affiliates such as WNET are almost entirely dependent on gifts, some of which are sizable….”