Why public media?
‘It just feels like hearts coming out of my head’
What do viewers and listeners have to say about public broadcasting’s purposes? You can work backward from their letters and calls to ...The best of jobs: to have and serve the public’s trust
Bill Moyers’ keynote at the PBS Annual Meeting, June 23, 1996, grabbed many of the pubcasters where they live, and invited others ...America, I do mind dying
This commentary traces public broadcasting back to its earliest days and its root principles of populism and public education. Media historian Robert ...What we offer: the case distinguishing NPR news
A longtime NPR correspondent — then vice president in charge of the network’s news division — adapted this article from his remarks ...Who public radio broadcasters are: members of a congregation, with our listeners
This is the view from Martin Goldsmith, then host of NPR’s daily classical music program Performance Today, who served as announcer, producer and program ...Dear Impresario: Let’s recreate PBS as the citizens’ channel
In 1995, Current asked three of public TV’s highly regarded program-makers to write “Dear Impresario” letters to the next chief programmer at PBS ...Spare that living tree
The little town where I grew up — Manning, S.C. — was small enough that we could walk to church on Sunday. ...Arts on public television: signatures of past, present and generations to come
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein wowed a lunchtime audience at the Public Television Annual Meeting in June 1994 with her personal testimonial ...‘The difference is that public TV serves a country, not a market’
This article is based on remarks by Marshall Turner, then chair of the CPB Board, at the board’s Jan. 27, 1994, meeting. ...To bring exuberant life to the country’s most important public space
When President Clinton had just taken office in 1993, Current asked an assortment of outside-the-Beltway people connected with public broadcasting to write open letters ...To empower active citizens with knowledge, locally as well as nationally
When President Clinton had just taken office in 1993, Current asked an assortment of outside-the-Beltway people connected with public broadcasting to write open ...To serve as a catalyst in making our cities work
When President Clinton had just taken office in 1993, Current asked an assortment of outside-the-Beltway people connected with public broadcasting to write open ...Local programs: our niche, and it’s a mile wide
In the spring of 1991, a management consulting firm advised public TV to shift its spending from local to national programs. Current asked ...‘The only place where you have a measure of creative control’
Documentary-maker Ken Burns told why he’s continuing to work with public broadcasting at the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles ...‘I give an expression of care
every day to each child’Probably the most famous congressional testimony delivered on behalf of CPB appropriations came from Fred Rogers on May 2, 1969. The young ...
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