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PBS: Behind the Screen, by Laurence Jarvik (Prima Publishing, 336 pp., $25)

LAURENCE Jarvik is frequently described by sources in the public-broadcasting world as a gadfly. If by that they mean what Webster did, namely, “one that stimulates or provokes to activity by persistent criticism especially of an irritating, pointed kind,” they couldn’t be closer to the truth.

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Neal B. Freeman

Neal B. Freeman, businessman and journalist, was a director of National Review Inc. for 38 years.

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PBS: Behind the Screen, by Laurence Jarvik (Prima Publishing, 336 pp., $25)

LAURENCE Jarvik is frequently described by sources in the public-broadcasting world as a gadfly. If by that they mean what Webster did, namely, “one that stimulates or provokes to activity by persistent criticism especially of an irritating, pointed kind,” they couldn’t be closer to the truth.