Mr. Charles McGrath

Charles McGrath
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In his bedroom, this past Sunday morning, Mr. Lehrer pored over a piece in the Times by writer-at-large Charles McGrath, entitled "Is PBS Still Necessary?"
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In the essay, Mr. McGrath questioned whether the "glory days" of public television were "past recapturing."He argued that the PBS lineup suffers from "mustiness."He suggested that the rise of cable television had eclipsed the need for much of PBS's programming.And he contrasted the current state of public radio (a success!) with that of public television (a mess!).

"Who would have guessed 40 years ago, when public broadcasting came into being, that the antique medium, the one supposedly on its way out, would prove to be the greater success and the one more technically nimble," wrote Mr. McGrath.
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"Jim Lehrer, 73, has been with NewsHour since 1975," wrote Mr. McGrath, "so long that some of his early viewers are now in assisted living."