"PBS does not belong to any single constituency, no one political party, no activist group, no foundation, no funder, no agenda of any kind," asserted PBS President Pat Mitchell in a National Press Club speech reported by the Los Angeles Times. She declined to mud-wrestle with CPB Chair Ken Tomlinson: "I really don't feel it's my place to judge the motivations of someone."

Right-wing media watchdog L. Brent Bozell tappity-taps on a wedge between public TV and Bill Moyers: "Earth to PBS: When you are under attack for being a nest of left-wingers, it might not be the best strategy to let your most identifiable left-wing stars go to radical-left conferences and attack conservatives as evil." From a webzine, National Ledger.