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"We'd put the list together before his book came out, so that must have just been a red flag for the PBS folks," says the CPB staffer. "We're disappointed they couldn't look past the politics and couldn't see that this show would have gotten them better ratings than anything else they're putting on the air."

Indeed, the programming staff at PBS is now calling "Wide Angle" a "prestige show."

"That's what they call programming that won't get ratings, but helps them with their liberal constituents in places like New York and San Francisco," says a PBS staffer. "Shows like 'This Old House' and Julia Childs's cooking shows get viewers. Those aren't prestige."

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