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Master of talks: Cooke, in his Letter from America
Masterpiece Theatre was a relatively short run for Alistair Cooke, and his intros mere appetizers. For more of Cooke, as he turns 90, sample ...Slain in a broadcast underground
Michael Taylor believed in second chances — he was living proof that they come along. Before the early 1990s, the Los Angeles resident ...Cooking star pays plaintiffs in sexual abuse suits
In most sexual abuse cases, it’s one person’s word against another’s. In the Frugal Gourmet’s case, it was his word against 20 ...Jim Lehrer takes his own advice: Make sure it matters to you
Two decades ago, Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil gave public television a kind of news program that contrasted greatly with the aims of ...Fred Friendly: ‘a tough man but, my God, full of ideas’
Fred W. Friendly, the legendary CBS News producer who tried to bring innovation to public TV in the 1960s and later developed ...Fred Wiseman’s novelistic samplings of reality
As I write these words, Frederick Wiseman’s 30th film, Public Housing, is about to be broadcast, Dec. 1 [1998], through PBS, the national network ...Public TV defender, visionary Ralph Rogers dies in Dallas
Ralph B. Rogers, the Dallas businessman who re-founded and perhaps saved PBS in the early 1970s, died Nov. 4 after a long ...Christo’s bet on news/talk paid off for Boston’s WBUR
See Jane. See Jane run WBUR. See Jane ditch the music for NPR news and talk. Grow WBUR, grow. Why the primer approach? ...With Abu-Jamal coming on, WRTI drops Pacifica
The prospect of radio commentaries by a controversial death-row inmate “accelerated” Temple University’s decision to pull Pacifica news off WRTI, the university ...Three arrested in connection with murder of KPFK reporter
Three men have been arrested and charged with the murder of Michael Taylor, a former Pacifica reporter who was attempting to start ...Three arrested in connection with murder of KPFK reporter
Three men have been arrested and charged with the murder of Michael Taylor, a former Pacifica reporter who was attempting to start ...Pacifica reporter found murdered in Los Angeles
Michael Taylor, a reporter for Pacifica station KPFK in Los Angeles, has been murdered. Friends believe the execution-style shooting may have been ...Pacifica reporter found murdered in Los Angeles
Michael Taylor, a reporter for Pacifica station KPFK in Los Angeles, has been murdered. Friends believe the execution-style shooting may have been ...Abu-Jamal sues NPR to force broadcast of commentaries
Death row inmate, journalist, and international cause celebre Mumia Abu-Jamal has filed a $2 million censorship lawsuit against NPR over the network’s ...Ex-reporter gains notice on death row
Even from a concrete cell where he is locked up 23 hours a day, Mumia Abu-Jamal — convicted murderer and former public ...
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