PBS: For Affluent Whites Only?

“Is PBS really a network for and by the people?” The exclusion of Latinos and Native Americans from Ken Burns’ upcoming World War II miniseries is hardly an exception for the network, Ilan Stavans argues. “We need a new model of public broadcasting that isn’t paternalistic. To keep on perceiving ethnic people as an appendix to our country’s past is not to recognize the dramatic transformation we’ve undergone in the last 25 years.”