“Non-commercial TV should address itself to the ideal of excellence, not the idea of acceptability…” “I think TV should be providing the visual counterpart of the literary essay, should arouse our dreams, satisfy our hunger for beauty, take us on journeys, enable us to participate in events, present great drama and music, explore the sea and the sky and the woods and the hills…” “…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 In his letter to the first Carnegie Commission, September 26, 1966