Public Media Policybase
Wilbur Mills to LBJ: ‘We ain’t gonna give money to folks without some strings attached’
Congress doesn’t work that way, said Wilbur Mills, the formidable chair of the House Ways and Means Committee in the late 1960s. ...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 ...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 ...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. ...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 ...University Licensee Association, Charter of Association, amended May 2005
The association includes public broadcasting stations licensed to colleges and universities — largely public TV or TV/radio joint licensees. It is one ...Secretary of Education objects to Postcards from Buster ‘two moms’ episode, 2005
Margaret Spellings, secretary of education in George W. Bush’s administration, complained to PBS in 2005 about an episode of the animated Postcards from ...National Educational Telecommunications Association Bylaws
NETA, a successor of Southern Educational Communications Association, provides a range of services to public TV professionals and stations, including program distribution, ...Why public television?: Public TV’s mission statement, 2004
Public TV stations adopted this statement of mission at the PBS Members Meeting, Feb. 23, 2004. For more information. See also Current‘s coverage, ...
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