He also said that in two faxes he sent to Livingston before the House hearing, he explained no federal funds would be used for the on-air appeals. In 1984 the Supreme Court ruled that an existing ban on editorializing that applied to noncommercial stations violated the First Amendment rights of public stations licensees, according to communications law scholar Herb Terry. Congress repealed the ban in 1988, he said. Programming Director Terry Dugas says he has no idea if the viewer did actually file. WYES's Feldman says he believes the industry will be hard to tarnish.
Public television is a very clean medium.
It just doesn't have a lot of scandals floating around. We do wear the white hats.