Pbs' Top Executive to Quit Post Next Year ; Departure Said to Be Unrelated to 'Buster'controversy

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Patricia E. Mitchell, the PBS president and CEO who has been criticized by conservatives and liberals alike, said this week she will leave the job when her contract expires in June 2006.

The decision comes about three weeks after Ms. Mitchell withdrew an episode of the children's series "Postcards from Buster" that briefly featured two women in a same-sex union, a segment Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has condemned.

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Pbs' Top Executive to Quit Post Next Year ; Departure Said to Be Unrelated to 'Buster'controversy

A Public Broadcasting Service spokeswoman said the organization will assemble a committee in the next few months to find a successor for Ms. Mit...

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