More about Bob Edwards in the Chicago Tribune (reg. req.), in USA Today, on NPR’s On the Media and from the network’s ombudsman.

The weblog Brand Autopsy is devoted to public radio this week, with discussion of fund drive no-nos, Bob Edwards and other topics.

Gregory Nava turns the new season of American Family into a 13-part movie, sending the eldest Gonzalez son into the Iraq War, says Seattle P-I critic Melanie McFarland. She predicts a heart-wrenching season.

CPB’s latest figures for public TV and radio’s total revenues, for fiscal year 2002, show the total continuing to rise to $2.28 billion. But public TV’s number of members continued to fall, 1 million in nine years, 260,000 in a year.