| | PBS' Smith covers TV news - The Washington Times: Business - March 02, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Smith interviewed Karen Everhart, senior editor of the Current, a biweekly newspaper that reports on public broadcasting, about the latest flaps at PBS, including the dispute over a profanity-laced "Frontline" documentary on soldiers in Iraq. |
 | | Smith is surprised that he is still the only TV reporter working the media beat. |
 | | The broadcast networks "are reluctant to criticize each other and spotlight each other's failings, lest they in turn have the spotlight turned on their own failings," he said, comparing the competition among the networks to the rivalry between the Macy's and Gimbels department stores in New York. |
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