“If PBS only had a sense of humor and encouraged more independent creativity and originality, its programs would serve audiences far better,” writes Lawrence Grossman, in the latest Columbia Journalism Review. The ex-PBS and NBC News president reviews two recent books on public TV, and offers his own prescription for fixing it.
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