--- title: TELEVISION: Mom, Apple Pie and PBS description: As Republicans attack public television, its defenders talk about its programming for kids and farmers -- not opera canonical: https://time.com/archive/6726620/television-mom-apple-pie-and-pbs/ author: Richard Zoglin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 1995-01-23T05:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-28T08:44:39.182Z article:section: U.S. og:title: TELEVISION: Mom, Apple Pie and PBS og:description: As Republicans attack public television, its defenders talk about its programming for kids and farmers -- not opera og:url: https://time.com/archive/6726620/television-mom-apple-pie-and-pbs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TELEVISION: Mom, Apple Pie and PBS twitter:description: As Republicans attack public television, its defenders talk about its programming for kids and farmers -- not opera twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # TELEVISION: Mom, Apple Pie and PBS > Sponsored content. 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Instead speaker after speaker trooped up to the microphone to tell stories of poor viewers in rural areas for whom PBS is a treasured companion; of fire fighters and police officers who take classes via local public-TV outlets; of children whose lives would be made joyless if such familiar PBS friends as Big Bird, Barney and Mister Rogers were taken away. Without federal funds, said Randall Feldman, president of WYES in New Orleans, his station would face cutbacks almost immediately. “Early-morning broadcasts of Barney and Lamb Chop’s Play-Along would go away,” he said. “It would be a huge step backward for America.” Never mind that some parents, given their attitude toward the big purple dinosaur, might actually call that a step forward. The race for the symbolic high ground has begun. Newt Gingrich has complained that public television is elitist and just a “sandbox for the rich,” and that Joe Taxpayer should not have to pick up the tab anymore. Public-TV executives, who will argue their cause this Thursday at a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, have responded by casting themselves as champions of the common man — and the common kid. Good grief, Newt Gingrich wants to do away with Big Bird! There is posturing on both sides. Popular kids’ shows like Sesame Street and Barney & Friends, for one thing, are well enough established to weather any federal funding cuts. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — the federal agency that Gingrich and his supporters want to “defund” — supplies only about 14% of PBS’s annual income, with the rest coming from corporations, member donations and other sources. If the $285.6 million the CPB is handing out this year were wiped out, public TV would still survive, though in a hobbled condition. But some of the Republican arguments have been misleading as well. The charge of elitism, for example, is exaggerated. A 1994 Nielsen study revealed that 56.5% of PBS-viewing households have incomes below $40,000, not much less than the national average of 59.9%. “Elitism” is really a code word for a more virulent complaint made by conservative critics: that PBS programming has a liberal bias. It is bad enough, say right-wingers, that Bill Moyers and Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City have to be on television; but why do taxpayers have to support them? PBS supporters insist that government funding remains as essential today as it ever has been to fulfill the mandate of public television: to provide a place where high-quality programming can flourish without the commercial pressures that dog the networks. Yet with both Democrats and Republicans looking desperately for places to cut government spending, public TV seems to many a frill that can be eliminated with relatively little pain. What’s more, TV has changed markedly since the Public Broadcasting Service was created in 1969\. Back then, PBS was the only alternative to the three commercial networks. Now the cable dial is filled with channels like Discovery, Arts & Entertainment and Nickelodeon, which offer similar programming. Senator Larry Pressler, the South Dakota Republican who is a leading congressional foe of CPB funding, contends that public TV could survive just fine if it were off the government dole. For one thing, Pressler suggests, PBS could make up the money by negotiating for a piece of the revenue from the merchandising of Big Bird, Barney and other popular PBS children’s characters. (The producers of Barney have done just that.) Public TV’s defenders, too, are marshaling their forces and arguments. Bill Moyers, speaking to a press conference this month, caustically noted the role that for-profit cable networks — PBS’s competitors — have played in providing a platform for Gingrich’s attacks: the new House Speaker has his own show on National Empowerment Television, a conservative cable network, and was recently inveighing against the CPB in an hourlong interview on C-SPAN. Moyers expressed suspicion of “publicly supported politicians in the service of a commercial industry that, frankly, would like to see public television not exist.” CPB president Richard Carlson seems to be relying on the old mom-and-apple- pie approach. The stations most vulnerable to the loss of federal funding, he points out, are small outlets in rural areas that get a relatively large portion of their money from the CPB. “If they pull out the federal funds,” says Carlson, “it will probably cause the small stations to crash and burn … Public broadcasting in small communities touches the life of every person there. 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