Pat Mitchell has a bad memory, but I don't

I just saw Pat Mitchell, President and CEO of PBS, on C-Span, declaring that PBS has always stood fast against pressure for it to change its content and programming.

Not quite, Pat. Though, to this day, PBS denies it, it is common and obvious knowledge that PBS folded like a tiki bar umbrella when right-wing religious nuts protested its airing of the first Tales of the City installment. The producers of the adaptation of Armistead Maupin's hilarious books got the message and produced the rest of the series in Canada.