Introduction
1. "An absolutely vital service" is quoted in Lloyd Grove, "Sound Bites over Substance: The Sorry End to PBS' Election Project," Washington Post , July 11, 1991. [BACK]
2. David J. Brugger, president of the Association of America's Public Television Stations, quoted in Grove, "Sound Bites." [BACK]
3. "Why Markle and PBS Split on Election '92," Current , July 22, 1991. [BACK]
4. Ward Chamberlin, quoted in Grove, "Sound Bites." [BACK]
5. The story of the federal government's seventy-year failure to understand and support the concept of public-service broadcasting is told in fascinating detail by Willard D. Rowland, Jr., in "Public Service Broadcasting in the United States: Its Mandate, Institutions, and Conflicts," in Robert K. Avery, ed., Public Service Broadcasting in a Multichannel Environment (New York: Longman, 1993). [BACK]
6. Grove, "Sound Bites." Grove refers to public television as "the television equivalent of Yugoslavia." [BACK]
7. George Gerbner, "Telling Stories in the Information Age," in Brent D. Ruben, ed., Information and Behavior , vol. 2 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1988). [BACK]
8. The Complete Essays of Montaigne , trans. Donald M. Frame, bk. 2, no. 10 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 1965), p. 304. [BACK]