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An Alternative Future for U.S. Public Broadcasting

CIPB Director Jerry Starr Offers an Alternate View

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New Current Reports

Sound Off with Sasha
Listen to "Sound Off With Sasha" featuring CIPB Executive Director, Dr. Jerry Starr (WGCU public media).

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Read text of Brooke Gladstone's NPR report on PBS Funding Crisis
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		CIPB Launches Public Affairs Program Homefront: A Public Affairs Forum Executive Director Jerold Starr explains: "This program is deliberately not your standard TV public affairs show with flacks and hacks shouting opinions at each other on whatever subject that comes up." Click here for full story
		Learn How To Reform Public Broadcasting In Your Community A Non-Illustrated Version of the Activist Manual is Now Available: Download in Adobe PDF Format

Ready for PBS!
The CIPB Documentary Competition & Tour
The winning films have been selected and are traveling to CIPB chapters. Check out the winners & tour schedule. CLICK HERE

Now Available from M.E. Sharpe:
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PUBLIC BROADCASTING AND
THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Edited by Michael P. McCauley et.al.
University of Maine

Anthology Includes...

Public Television in the Digital Age:
Town Hall or Cyber Mall?
by CIPB Executive Director Jerold M. Starr

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HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT TV?
Here is an examination, but its not for the kids. It's for the parents and it's on TV---who owns it, who pays for it, who's on it, what it offers, and everything else you thought you knew but probably don't. We start with how much your children watch and what they see. We guarantee that you will find this exam most revealing about the familiar stranger that lives in every house.

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We need to develop a new constituency for public broadcasting that will call us back to the ideal of serving the public interest... Corporate funders increasingly are determining what gets on the public airwaves. Jerry Starr and his associates are the only citizens' group I know of that is attempting on a national level to reverse these trends.

Bill Moyers,
Public Affairs Television, Inc.

Problem

U.S. Public Broadcasting: Structure and Programming

The Crisis of U.S. Public Broadcasting

Solution

CIPB Mission Statement

CIPB's Founding News Conference

The CIPB Proposal for a Public Broadcasting Trust

Read TV Critic Aaron Barnhart's July 22, 2002 Column
The Little Picture: In Public TV We Trust