This is another of the significant
issues in the recent growth of paid - time religious programming: by displacing all other types of religious programming, the paid - time religious
broadcasters have virtually eliminated the community - responsibility orientation of media functioning in America which had been represented by
public - service programming, much of which was religious in orientation.
No one unfamiliar with the channel's record on this
issue could have imagined that a
public service
broadcaster would have transmitted a programme containing so many distortions.