Calling UNC-TV to the Stand

I heard that Jim Goodmon of WRAL was so incensed by the legislative subpoena of WUNC-TV that he called Erskine Bowles – and urged him to fight it.
 
Of course, given the just-completed state budget, UNC was in no position to defy the legislature.
 
Both UNC-TV and the First Amendment probably will survive.
 
But the flap dramatizes the tension between UNC-TV’s status as a tax-paid institution – and part of the public university system – and its news operation.
 
I wonder what PBS would do if Congress subpoenaed one of its unaired stories.
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Calling UNC-TV to the Stand

I heard that Jim Goodmon of WRAL was so incensed by the legislative subpoena of WUNC-TV that he called Erskine Bowles – and urged him to fight it.
 
Of course, given the just-completed state budget, UNC was in no position to defy the legislature.
 
Both UNC-TV and the First Amendment probably will survive.
 
But the flap dramatizes the tension between UNC-TV’s status as a tax-paid institution – and part of the public university system – and its news operation.
 
I wonder what PBS would do if Congress subpoenaed one of its unaired stories.
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