This show presents an odd social situation, inasmuch as it was Henry Cauthen who first brought Firing Line to public television, where it had been nestling now for 26 years; and yet Mr. Buckley can't suppress his conviction that, really, federally collected tax money oughtn't to be used to fund television shows. A good-tempered, fast-moving debate. BC: "I think that every community deserves a public library, and I think therefore it is important to have public broadcasting." WFB: "Public libraries existed before it ever occurred to anybody that it should be the responsibility of Washington, D.C., to subsidize them. Mr. Carnegie wasn't waiting on Theodore Roosevelt to subsidize a library."