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 | | ITVS was merely the latest attempt to implement some of public broadcasting's earliest goals: that public television would be independent of commercial interests and would become--in the words of the Carnegie Commission in 1967--"the clearest expression of American diversity, and of excellence through diversity." By 1988, however, many saw PBS as neither independent nor diverse. |
 | | While intellectual and artistic cultures have demeaned television's mass mentality from the start in postures of voluntary cultural exclusion, it was the civil rights crisis in the 1960s, by contrast, that highlighted television's involuntary forms of ethnic, racial, and gender bias. |
 | | The formation of National Educational Television (NET), its successor the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and the funding arm, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) were all attempts to correct the narrow interests that democratically minded critics saw at the root of network television. |
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