Ken Burns - Public broadcasting, a 'luxury' we can't do without
It is possible that many people who have never seen the benefit of public television and radio programming just don't understand the need for it. It is the only programming that is not created for the express purpose of selling some commercial product. It allows us to see things that would not be commercially viable.
A society is historically defined by its culture. The arts lift us all from the tedium of our day to day existence. For me, the PBS newshour develops a topic and looks at it from different perspectives and does it with enough depth to be able to understand some of the motivations.
Some call it programming for the elite but, in my opinion, it attempts to lift us all and asks us to try harder to look beneath the surface. We have enough of that already.
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