-Caveat Lector-
My take on this, as a former nonprofit executive, is that almost all of the
PBS stations involved were using third-party brokers who shopped their
mailing lists to interested parties. I don't like having my name and address
sold to someone without my explicit permission; this form of fundraising
bugs the hell out of me, and has for years. But in an era when business and
corporate types dominate the boards of nonprofits (cf. the Pacifica
Foundation flap for an example), the mailing list becomes just a commodity,
part of the station's "goodwill." If anyone is really to blame in this mess,
it's the brokers, who never stopped to think that they might be endangering
the Federal funding of the stations involved, as well as the board members,
who obviously have not been exercising proper oversight over the operations,
especially the fundraising, of the stations.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prudence L. Kuhn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 8:49 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [CTRL] PBS PREZ RESIGNS
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> In a message dated 09/11/1999 10:00:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << The BOSTON GLOBE is reporting on Friday that an inspector
> general's report looking into the Public Broadcasting System's
> donor list controversy has concluded that only one party benefitted
> from the list giveaway -- the Democratic Party.
> The report, released Thursday, concluded that out of 183 public TV
> and 408 public radio stations, 53 of them, or 9%, made their lists
> available to political groups. >>
>
> This is so funny. Why hasn't it occurred to anyone that PBS like any
> other
> outfit that sells its donor lists can only sell to someone who offers to
> buy
> it. Most people who watch and donate to PBS are rather intelligent
> (therefore liberal?). If they are Democrats, so be it. The Republican
> Party
> obviously didn't offer to buy the list and probably wouldn't have wasted
> postage money sending it out. What a crock this all is. Prudy
>
>
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