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Missoula workshop: speakers call for public role, transparency in building Montana public-television system
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At a Missoula workshop on “Montana Media Beyond Access,” speakers said Montana lacks an institutionalized public-television system, urged clearer public participation and transparency about funding and private-sector ties, and cited recent federal and state policy decisions as complicating factors.
Speakers at a Missoula workshop on “Montana Media Beyond Access” said Montana still lacks a fully institutionalized public-television system and urged more open public participation in shaping one.
“Public television in Montana…is a controversial issue of public importance,” McCarthy Coyle, reporter and editor of The Independent, said, adding that he has “heard almost nothing” about who is doing what and where the money is coming from. “I see a major responsibility not being met by present telecommunications providers.”
Workshop organizer Mary (MCAT host) and Coyle framed the problem as one of access to information about institutional plans for public television. Coyle…
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