Is PBS.org ready to earn its keep?

[SOURCE: Current, AUTHOR: Louis Barbash]
Despite successes in its first 10 years, PBS’s award-winning website has seen its budget and staff shrink, prompting new network plans to bring back online advertising and begin charging for video downloading. Does this violate public TV’s “noncommercial nature” and “universal service?”
http://www.current.org/web/web0520pbsdotorg.shtml

* Podcasts: For free or not for free?
http://www.current.org/web/web0523podcasts.shtml

* It’s time to become more than a radio station
http://www.current.org/radio/radio0517serviceexpansion.shtml