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² John Witherspoon et al. A History of Public Broadcasting, rev. ed. (Washington, DC: Current, 2000), 62, 70.

³ "Public Broadcasting Act of 1967," as amended, accessed June 12, 2017, http://www.cpb.org/aboutpb/act.

⁴ Editorial Integrity for Public Media, "Public Media Code of Integrity," September 2013, accessed June 12, 2017, https://publicmediaintegrity.org/code-of-integrity/.

⁵ "President Johnson's Remarks on Signing the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967." Current, November 7, 2007, https://current.org/2007/11/president-johnsons-remarks-on-signing-the-public-broadcasting-act-1967/.

⁶ Charles Ponce de Leon, That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 20.

⁷ Advertisement, New York Times, November 5, 1967, E12.

⁹ "Ford Fund Grants $5-Million to Encourage New TV Shows," New York Times. June 11, 1968, 76.

¹⁰ "'MacNeil-Lehrer Report' to Expand?" Los Angeles Times, December 28, 1981.

¹¹ William C. Spragens, Electronic Magazines: Soft News Programs on Network Television (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995) 13.

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¹³ Steve Behrens, "Nightly Presence: For Some, Worth the Cost," Current, September 22, 1997, https://current.org/wp-content/uploads/archive-site/prog/prog717n.html.

¹⁴ Ibid.

¹⁵ Beth Courtney (president and CEO, Louisiana Public Broadcasting), interview by Leslie Bourgeois on behalf of Alejandra Dean, May 2017.

¹⁶ "About CPB."

¹⁷ "Where Public Television Means More Than a Political Football," New York Times. April 17, 1995, C9.

¹⁸ Steve Behrens, "KTCA's NewsNight Minnesota: Under This Newscast's Slick Surface, Producers Removed the Pathology of TV News," Current, December 18, 1995, https://current.org/wp-content/uploads/archive-site/prog/prog523n.html.