public broadcasting prez an utter dolt

The following exchange from an interview (registration required) in the Times Magzine does not inspire confidence in the man who runs the organization behind PBS:

What PBS shows do you like?

I'm not much of a TV consumer. I like ''Masterpiece Theater'' and some of the ''Frontline'' shows. I like ''Antiques Roadshow'' and ''Nova.'' I don't know. What's your favorite show?

It would probably be the ''NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.''

Yes, Lehrer is good, but I don't watch a lot of broadcast news. The problem for me is that I do the Internet news stuff all day long, so by the time I get to the Lehrer thing . . . it's slow. I don't always want to sit down and read Shakespeare, and Lehrer is akin to Shakespeare. Sometimes I really just want a People magazine, and often that is in the evening, after a hard day.

What the hell? Isn't this man supposed to be an evangelist for PBS programming?