How About PPV for PBS?

Reading your article on “corporate messages” at PBS had me checking my calendar to make sure it wasn’t 1984 (“Soft Commercials Air on KCET in a ‘Test’ for Funding,” Dec. 28). Newspeak is apparently alive and well in, of all places, the hallowed halls of public broadcasting.

Perhaps a less hypocritical alternative would be a new channel that provides all the programming we now see on PBS without the constant shilling for money, the “corporate messages” and the self-congratulatory promos.

That would be a pay-per-view alternative well worth the investment.

VINCE SHERR

Santa Barbara