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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: New Study Reveals Public TV Bias A new study of public television programming challenges many of the premises of the conservative-dominated debate over public television bias. The independently conducted study, a version of which will appear in the September/October issue of FAIR's magazine Extra!, is the first ever to examine public TV's full evening schedule. It focuses, in particular, on the sources featured in public affairs programming. "Our findings cast considerable doubt on conservative claims concerning the liberal or left-wing bias of public television programming," the authors conclude. "Environmentalists, feminists and labor activists receive scant attention within public television programming, while corporate and government spokespersons dominate both regularly scheduled news and business programs." As the study noted, the mission of public television programming was articulated by the 1967 Carnegie Commission Report: To "help us see America whole, in all its diversity"; serve as "a forum for controversy and debate"; and "provide a voice for groups in the community that may otherwise be unheard." The authors conclude that the challenge facing public television is to "refocus on the "public" that public television is intended to serve." PART ONE: THE "NATIONAL" PUBLIC TELEVISION SCHEDULE To better generalize about what public television viewers are seeing, the study constructed a composite "national" public TV schedule by combining programming information from 15 stations in 10 cities. The sample period included one (randomly selected) week out of each of the first six months of 1992, and focused on evening programming from 6 p.m. to midnight (the time of highest viewership). Among the findings: To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2560 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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