1989 Articles

TV Can Afford Some Opinion

Konner, Joan

To broadcast or not to broadcast? It is a serious question and someone accountable, a station or network executive, has to decide when standards of fairness, accuracy and balance are at issue. That was the case of "Days of Rage: The Young Palestinians," broadcast September 6th on WNET/13. one of dozens of difficult decisions public-television executives make every day in the uneasy collaboration between independent producers needing a broadcast outlet and the public broadcaster needing and obligated to air independent productions.