From: Tony Williams 

John Beamish wrote:
> Doubt it.  I've never seen the begging and pleading on BBC that is a
> hallmark of PBS and NPR.

That is irritating, isn't it? And pretending that sponsorship ("This
program brought to you by ...") is somehow different than advertising
doesn't do much for their credibility.

(BTW, the attributions seem to have got mixed up - it was Mark who wrote
the text you quoted below.)

> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:32:18 -0500, Mark  wrote:
>
>> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
>> news:458af83b{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Too, I imagine on a per capita basis
>> (i.e. if their were only 60M of us, it'd probably $200 a head as
>> well), we
>> pay a similar amount indirectly via the grants given to PBS by the
>> government.
>>
>>
>

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