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Losing the public trust

Cover Story Sidebar | With all the talk of openness, why is public broadcasting suddenly so fearful of going, well, public?

Technical difficulties

Cover Story | The PBS scandal started with a revelation that one TV affiliate in Boston shared donor lists with Democrats. It grew when a chastened public broadcasting official told Congress he'd discovered the number of Democrat-friendly affiliates had grown to 30. Last week on Capitol Hill, influential lawmakers made it clear they will not refill the federal trough until they get some satisfactory answers. But a WORLD investigation reveals another question Congress might want to ask: Why did two top PBS affiliates fail to disclose their political contacts to the IRS?

In this issue: "Panic at PBS?," Aug. 14, 1999

Features

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No place like home

International |  For many Kosovo refugees, the war's ravages are no match for the longing to go back

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Mrs. Clinton spins God

National |  First lady misrepresents biblical doctrines

Dispatches

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Quotables

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News & Reviews

Hubbel, Trie trials: Judge assignments questioned Smelling a scandal The quiet assignment of two Clinton-appointed judges to oversee the trials of two Clinton…

Reviews

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Books: Morrie's half gospel

Books |  The success of a huge bestseller shows American concerns about this life but little regard for the next

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Books: Traveling by the book

Books |  Authors: annoying (and sometimes delightful) travel companions

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Beyond rock 'n' roll

Culture |  Pop-rocker Phil Collins does the swing thing, NPR hangs onto its influence, and Sony unveils a new online narcotic

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It's a fictional life

Culture |  Blurring the difference between the real and the make-believe is making a big difference at the box office

Voices

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Mailbag

Oblivious I applaud your July 17 cover story, "Worldview warehouses." Last summer I toured the National Museum of American History. I noticed many of the same…

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Fear of man

From Ahithophel to Herod to Dick Morris

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What's good for the goose

Some important differences between public broadcasting and WORLD

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Breaking the cycle

It's not yet the time to celebrate welfare victory

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