Who Rules Public TV? — FAIR
The
study looked at the occupations of the current trustees of WNET (New
York City/Newark), WGBH (Boston), WETA (Washington, DC), WTTW (Chicago)
and KCET (Los Angeles).
Out of these boards’ 182 total members,
152—or 84 percent—have corporate backgrounds, including 138 who are
executives at elite businesses. Another 14 members appear to be on the
board because of their families’ corporate-derived wealth, often with a
primary affiliation as an officer of a family charitable foundation.
Typical public TV board members.
