Calling UNC-TV to the Stand
July 6, 2010 - by
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.
Calling UNC-TV to the Stand
July 6, 2010/
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.