Readers See No Need for KCET Apology

I felt moved to write and voice my view, but several letters to the editor had already echoed my sentiments. Then I read Tim Rutten’s column and concluded that if a professional journalist could so completely lose perspective, something is still to be said on this issue.

If “Stop the Church” had no merit, PBS shouldn’t have scheduled it; but to schedule it and then later pull it called their motives into question and left KCET in an awkward position.

I believe KCET had a public obligation to air the film. It did so responsibly and with umpteen words of warning and disclaimers. The “journalism” contained in the film can be debated, but KCET’s journalistic decision to get the facts into the open is irreproachable. I think KCET executives handled the situation the best way they could. They owe apologies to no one.

ALAN MASLAC

Culver City