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Title Slate: The Eleventh Hour #361. Fair & PBS. Rec: 5/21/90. Dir: Andrew Wilk
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Funding by Announcer.. Charitable orgs overlay The Eleventh Hour graphic.
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Show opener
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Host Robert Lipsyte in The Eleventh Hour studio talks about tonight's topic, the media watchdog group - "Fair", and its accusation that the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour of coloring it's stories "conservative" thereby mocking "the mandate of public television".
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Lipsyte welcomes viewers and introduces himself. He announces guests forthcoming, Robert MacNeil and a PBS executive who will give their response to the report.
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Lipsyte introduces Boston College sociologists, William Hoynes and David Couteau and cuts to a presentation of their findings from the Carnegie Commission of 1967.
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Slate: PBS graphic with overlay reads: The Carnegie Commission of 1967 urged PBS to: "help us see America whole, in all its diversity" "be a forum for debate and controversy" "provide a voice for groups in the community that may otherwise be unheard"
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The MacNeil Lehrer News Hour with overlay - Fair Report Conclusion: Guests on programs about National issues: 90% of guests were white, 87% were male.
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Overlay the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour graphic - Of U.S. Guests: 46% were current or former gov't officials, 38% wee professionals; 5% corporate officials; 89% "elite" opinion, 6% public interest labor racial or ethnic groups
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Further overlay MacNeil graphic:
Two main think tanks providing experts are conservative: On domestic politics: The American Enterprise Institute. On foreign policy: The Center for Strategic & International Studies. |
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Final overlay over MacNeil graphic:
Case Study: The Environment Only one in 17 guests on environmental segments was a representative of an environmental group |
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Host Lipsyte introduces Robert MacNeil, Executive Editor of the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour and Jeff Cohen, Executive Director of FAIR; Carolyn Craven, Sr. Producer South Africa Now; and from Washington via satellite, Barry Chase, Vice President Programming PBS (satellite from Washington DC)
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INSERT INTERVIEW:
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Lipsyte stops the interview for now and cuts away to an off site segment with commentary by Pat Aufderheide, Assistant Professor School of Communications of the American University In Washington and Sr. Editor of In These Times a weekly with a left perspective.
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Clip from Public Television series, "Land of the Eagle" - narration by Pat Aufderheide unseen who talks about Public TV consisting of programming you can't get on commercial TV which is why we fund it with tax dollars.
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Aufderheide reporting from outside and standing in front of the Channel 13 studios, "Only the Best Thirteen" neon graphic on window behind her.
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Various quick clips from commercial TV broadcasts, a ballet, play various movies and programs. Aufdurheidi talking about public TV might do something commercial tv has never done well - public affairs programs
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PBS show opener for "Metro Week in Review" .
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Clip from PBS series, Metro Week in Review.
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Show opener for the PBS series, Eyes on the Prize
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Show opener for Bill Moyers' special show on the media, The Public Mind
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Show opener for television's only hour long news show, The MacNeil Lehrer News Hour.
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Clips from var. public affairs television news shows. Aufderheide narrates there's not enough public affairs shows and often times they are bias.
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Clip from Firing Line - Aufderheide narrates there is bias from the Right such as commentators, Bill Buckley and John McLaughlin
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Show opener for American Interest.
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Pat Aufderheide, Senior Editor, In These Times, reporting from a board room states that no syndicated or PBS show comes in from left of center. and many local stations avoid such shows due to influence from Boards stacked with the locally powerful.
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Aufderheide goes on the report that getting the balance would take leadership and suggests it may have to come from PBS's national distribution service.
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Pan down on large WNET/Thirteen Broadcast Founders wall showing list of Benefactors and Patrons
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Aufderheide leaning on the wall continues talking about how corporate dollars hold the program agendas hostage. She states that the public dollars received are not tied to programming, but corporate underwriting is what is tied to progamming.
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Title slate or slide: Prudential-Bache Securities Rock Solid. Market Wise.
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Logos for large corporate underwriters and their respective series: Johnson & Johnson and show opener for The Health Century.
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Logo for the Digital Equipment Corporation and show opener for The Infinite Voyage series which they underwrite.
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Clip from "Wall Street Week" W$W
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PBS logo
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Show opener for Washington Week in Review and clip from the program
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Clips from the McNeil Lehrer News Hour
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Outline of a USA map filled in and populated with pics of the diverse American people
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Same outline of map of USA populated by current issues, a forest which represents organizations critical of industry claims to eliminate ozone eating chemicals; an office with computers indicating consumer groups; construction workers representing organized labor concerns of workplace dangers.
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Same map with PBS logo overlay
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Var logos of large corporate funders: Martin Marietta; American Gas Association; The Travelers; Enron Corp.
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Logos from various TV stations: MPT Productions; WQED Pittsburgh; WETA Washington, D.C.
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Clips from several (unknown) educational public broadcasting programs
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Back with Aufderheide summing up her report.
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Back with Host Robert Lipsyte in the studio seated with guests.
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Lipsyte refers to Barry Chase from Washington who is seen in a split screen with Lipsyte.
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INSERT INTERVIEW
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Interview concludes. Lipsyte thanks guests. He announces the show and introduces himself. Show Ends.
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Show credits overlay show closing graphics.
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Funding by announcer. Charitable orgs overlay The Eleventh Hour graphic.
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End Reel.
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Year: 1990
Color: Color
Genre: 1980s NEWS
Description: The Eleventh Hour - Show #361 Original Broadcast Date: 5-21-90 Title: Fair & PBS Guests: Robert MacNeil, Executive Editor of the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour; Jeff Cohen, Executive Director of FAIR; Carolyn Craven, Sr. Producer South Africa Now; and via satellite, Barry Chase, Vice President Programming PBS; Pat Aufderheide, Senior Editor, "In These Times".
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