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TELEVISION QUARTERLY...... Volume XXXVII - Number 1
Letter to the Editor
The Unthinkable Happened
By Karen Scott — A New York TV station news director reveals how 9/11 changed our lives forever.
The Open Mind: Open for 50 Years…and Counting!
By Frederick A. Jacobi — Richard Heffner’s uninterrupted half-century of conversations with history makers.
Plowing the Field of Dreams
By John V. Pavlik, a new-media secialist who shows how the online video explosion forces a reconsideration of just what constitutes television.
Television’s Convergence Conundrum
By Everette E. Dennis — How to find the right digital strategy.
Drama on Public Access TV
By Shirley Ann Bruno and Norman Hall — How a local-community project burgeoned into a regional and national venture.
Working on the Dark Side
By William F. Snyder — The candid backstage confessions of former New York State Governor Hugh Carey’s press officer.
What’s So Funny?
By Earl Pomerantz, a veteran television comedy writer who describes how he learned his trade.
It Will Play in Peoria
By Greg Vitiello — How Jac Venza, public television’s cultural-program chief, achieved success by never underestimating his audience.
How Roots and Black.White. Broke Racial TV Ground
By Richard G. Carter — Nearly 30 years apart, two ground-breaking series provided meaningful examinations of race relations in America.
Inside Big Bird and Outside Oscar the Grouch
By Steve Rogers — A conversation with Caroll Spinney, Muppetteer extraordinary.
Lights Out in the Wasteland: The TV Noir
By Allen Glover and David Bushman, who explore a dangerous, irrational place where the individual has little or no control over his fate.

REVIEW AND COMMENT
The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism
By Trevor Parry-Giles and Shawn J. Parry-Giles - Reviewed by Bernard S. Redmont

Impresario: The Life and Times of Ed Sullivan
By James McGuire - Reviewed by Ron Simon

I’m Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers
By Tim Madigan - Reviewed by Carla Seal-Wanner

Desperate Networks, by Bill Carter, and Seinology, by Tim Delaney
Reviewed by Earl Pomerantz

Watching Wildlife
By Cynthia Chris - Reviewed by Geoffrey Hammill

Alvin Cooperman Remembered