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Citizen groups file FOIA request for CPB documents
Citing the Freedom of Information Act, three citizen watchdog groups petitioned CPB President Pat Harrison Nov. 21, 2005, to release certain documents ...Review of Alleged Actions Violating the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, as Amended
Released by CPB Nov. 15, 2005 The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Office of Inspector General, has conducted a review of alleged violations of ...The ex-chairman’s reply: ‘My actions were open, lawful,’ sincere in intent
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, former CPB chairman, responded to the CPB inspector general’s Nov. 15, 2005, report with this statement, which was published ...CPB Inspector General’s recommendations after the Tomlinson episode
Excerpted from Inspector General Kenneth Konz’s full 67-page report (PDF), Nov. 15, 2005. We recommend that the Board of Directors take the following actions ...Executive summary of CPB inspector general’s report on the Tomlinson affair
See also PDF of the complete report and Current coverage. Review of Alleged Actions Violating the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, as Amended ...CPB Board reaction to Tomlinson affair, November 2005
Below are the chair’s speech and several resolutions passed by the CPB Board Nov. 15, 2005, responding to the CPB inspector general’s ...Organization of State Broadcasting Executives (OSBE) Statement of Mission and Purpose
OSBE is an affinity group of statewide public broadcasting organizations, both state-operated and nonprofit. Included are some state agencies that assist but ...What makes public broadcasting ‘public’ is engagement
The authors head the Public Media ThinkTank at American University in Washington, D.C. With backing from the Ford Foundation they’re working to ...A moral transaction
This essay appeared in the Washington Post June 21, 2005, after Bill Moyers retired from hosting the PBS weekly public affairs program. I must be the ...APTS warns Tomlinson that it will oppose CPB interference with public TV
APTS sent this letter to CPB Board Chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson on June 7, 2005, after media reported that he favors the ...‘Public trust is the rating that matters most to PBS’
Pat Mitchell, then president of PBS, delivered this talk May 24, 2005, at the National Press Club, in the midst of escalating ...Moyers’ speech to National Conference for Media Reform, 2005
Six months after retiring as host of PBS’s Now with Bill Moyers, the longtime journalist spoke to activists gathered for the conference in St. ...Hundt: System needs openness of 4 kinds
Attorney and former FCC chairman Reed Hundt , a co-chair of the PBS-appointed Digital Future Initiative, previewed his thinking in a Current commentary seven ...Public radio (unofficially) asks CPB to serve as political firewall, May 2005
Public radio station representatives endorsed this resolution by voice vote during NPR’s annual Members Meeting of stations, May 3, 2005. The meeting ...Barksdale: Make literacy your mission
Corporate leader and philanthropist James Barksdale, a co-chair of the PBS-appointed Digital Future Initiative, previewed his thinking in a Current commentary seven months before ...
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