Tune in, turn on, fight back: the right has fired its salvos. Now, public television's defenders are mounting their counteroffensive--but it's not off to a quick start.(Dispatches)

PUBLIC TELEVISION IS UNDER ATtack from within, undermined by a Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that is stacked with highly political appointees who think any programming based on "freedom, imagination, and initiative"--the words are from the first section of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967--is inherently liberal.

But can they be countered? In May, at a raucous media-reform meeting in St. Louis, Bill Moyers received a rousing ovation when he announced that the current political climate might force him "out of the rocking chair and back into the ...

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