The rest of the Broadcast TV stations have almost nothing which could be reasonably be construed as educational. They have absolutely nothing which is of a curriculum type. The closest thing to public service is the news and weather reports. While these are valuable services, I am dismayed that the over- riding force is absolutely anything which will deliver am audience to an advertiser. The only consideration to public service is the minimum required to keep the license and keep the audience.
Television is the most pervasive cultural force in history.
It is being given and sold to an ever shrinking group of ever more concentrated economic power. The motivations of this power is solely to make money. Every public service activity of these broadcasters is subordinated and sometimes corrupted by the commercial profit motive. My father, uncle, and grandfather served in the US military. Yet today, in the information age, we find that you have free speech only if you own a TV station.