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p> SESAME SEEDS br> Re: George Neumayr's Monopoly-Busting and PBS appearance letters in Reader Mail's Chris Anthems (under "Sense and Sensibility"), Lessons in Tolerance , and Who Watches PBS? : /p>

PBS may receive public funding, but what puts them on the air are local stations that use their broadcast licenses for shakedowns, er, I mean pledge drives in addition to running commercial advertising, er, I mean acknowledgements of commercial sponsors. When Bill Moyers and Nova and Frontline go off the air for Daniel O'Donnell, Peter Paul and Mary, and sundry superannuated do-wop singers punctuated by castigating fund raisers that make a Fidel Castro speech seem brief, there are some people who cannot comprehend what is going on, and in the manner of certain Marshall Islanders who are alleged to paint "U.S.A." on their chests and await the return of "John Frum," they actually write checks in the belief that this will make their regular programming come back.

p>That some of these people have written nasty letters to The American Spectator

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