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Like many of its competitors, the size of PBS' Prime Time average has been decreasing. This isn't news & ndash; if you read the trade papers, Madison Avenue has been wondering aloud why they still spend billions each year on advertising in front of commercial network audiences. Rather than comparing PBS' audience to other Prime Time network schedules (say Fox News, CNN, A&E, Discovery, or History) McGrath strangely offers "Friday Night Smackdown" as a comparison, in the same article he proposes that "quality" is out there. The combined viewing audience for all of the prime-time cable news channels is about 2.5 million. Only about one million more than PBS' single channel of evening programming. And why does he pass judgment on something as successful as FNS? Thanks for nothing, Charles.

Tarryn Mento served as KPBS' health reporter. She had previously worked as the multimedia producer for MetroFocus at WNET in New York City. She was also a Pulliam Fellow at the Arizona Republic. Tarryn has reported from three countries and in two languages. Her work has been published by The Washington Post, the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News, and El Nuevo Herald. She completed her master's degree at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, where she was named a Carnegie-Knight News 21 Fellow. A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Tarryn completed her undergraduate education in journalism at SUNY-Albany.