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At book's end, Ledbetter issues his clarion call for reform, demanding that the PBS clock be turned back to the '50s, when the philanthropoids first imagined American public broadcasting.
What Ledbetter misses is that PBS's time--if it ever had one--has come and gone.
These unflinching documentaries of the Vietnam War, shows devoted to militant black politics, and Naderesque consumer programs (Nader even hosted a show) sealed public TV's reputation as "left-dominated, elitist, minority-radical," as Ledbetter puts it.
How their dream cracked up, resulting in the pablum of today's PBS, and how PBS became Washington's most politically skittish organization, is the subject of James Ledbetter's brief history, Made Possible By ...
While I'd love to be able to tell you that PBS was born in a Seven Days in May -type coup, and that Julia Child, Mister Rogers, and Jim Lehrer have been slipping us subliminal military propaganda since the beginning, Ledbetter doesn't develop his idea that the Cold Warriors co-opted PBS.