About the photos

Non-commercial TV … should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's, and our Camelot.

It should restate and clarify the social dilemma and the political pickle.

Once in a while it does, and you get a quick glimpse of its potential.

—E.B. White

E.B. White's complete letter

Photos, clockwise from top left:
Filming The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848, photo by George Stone for KERA;
Anna Deavere Smith in Twilight: Los Angeles on PBS, photo by Adger Cowans;
Jeff Folmsbee shooting for WNET's City Arts series, photo by Joe Sinnott, WNET;
Juanita Buschkoeter in David Sutherland's The Farmer's Wife, photo by John Schaefer;
NPR's All Things Considered co-host Robert Siegel, photo by Steve Behrens, Current;
1930s radio engineer W.E. Phillips of WILL, University of Illinois.

Web page revised June 9, 2006