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Public television

PBS Self-Destructs

by Eugenia Williamson,

And what it means for viewers like you

Adieu, Big Bird

by Lewis H. Lapham,

On the terminal irrelevance of public television

Acts of contrition?

by Peter Dykstra,

And now, for something cheap. What’s coming up and going down at PBS

by Jack Hitt,

Thought

by Hugh Kenner,

Please welcome my next idea

Down with public television

by Stephen Chapman,

The Carnegie Broadcasting System

Video pioneers

by Jonathan Price,

The happening on the night of November 5

by John Fischer,

Home-grown TV in St. Louis

by Martin Quigley,

Can unsponsored TV pay its way?

by Bernard Babington Smith,

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