Air Wars: The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting

Founder and executive director of Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting, Starr argues that allowing corporate and conservative foundations to underwrite public broadcasting while banning support from organized labor and public interest grounds ensures that programming is either bland or conservately biased. This, he says, negates public broadcasting's founding mission to provide a forum for controversy and a voice for members of the community besides the powerful. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)