Jerry Moran: “as a father of a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old, I got to tell you that when you rely only upon the commercial sector to…”

“as a father of a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old, I got to tell you that when you rely only upon the commercial sector to produce programming that is in their interest, you do sacrifice quality and content. I doubt any of you have the opportunity to watch the kinds of shows that are put on on Saturday mornings or during the morning on weekdays. But the reality is that the only quality is that which you get on public broadcasting. What you get on the commercial networks is full of gratuitous violence, it has no qualitative content to it. There is a reason why the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been maintained. It is because there is a vast difference between what it produces and what the commercial networks produce. And it all comes down to where the motivation is. The motivation for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is to produce the highest quality programming, to appeal to our best instincts, and that is what we got and that is what we should keep.”