re: #72 Obdicut

PBS cannot exist as a non-profit without the govt CPB.

I will give you this analogy.

News used to be nonprofit for the broadcasters. It was a loss leader. News was provided as the public service cost for allowing broadcasters the use of the people’s airways.

Then the for profit model entered the picture and news had to make money and justify its existence on the budget.

That is what would happen to PBS if it lost govt funding and had to seek an avenue of distribution on the for profit privatized airwaves.

So privatization in this case very clearly means the for for profit model.