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“I’m not tired,” says 76-year-old Jim Lehrer. “And I still hear the sirens. And as long as I hear the sirens, I’ll still be there to find out where the hell they’re going.” David Zurawik asks him about PBS maintaining at least a bare-bones, weekend news operation. “It’s possible,” says Lehrer. “We just don’t have the resources right now.”
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