PBS’s Programming Problem?

“It’s an amazing bait-and-switch. Every few months, your local PBS station begs you – and Viewers Like You – to support their programming for the rest of the year, yet they do this by cramming their schedule with shows which they ONLY air when they’re pleading for dough. If PBS has to tart itself up as something it’s not in order to attract donors, isn’t that a de facto admission that their regular schedule isn’t enough of a draw to justify their existence?”