Quick Takes

  • Fox News Channel announced that it will add the Journal Editorial Report to its lineup in January. Developed for PBS, the show ...
  • Humorist Andy Borowitz imagines that President Bush considered bombing NPR in advance of the Iraq War until British Prime Minister Tony Blair ...
  • CPB Ombudsman Ken Bode responds to criticisms of the PBS program Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories, “[T]his broadcast is so slanted as to raise ...
  • Online Journalism Review‘s Mark Glaser examines NPR’s podcasting strategy and, in a signoff from OJR, notes that he’s working with PBS.org.
  • WFMU’s blog links to a video of Barney “channeling Tupac Shakur.”
  • Nova‘s recent special on New Orleans, The Storm that Drowned a City, was too easy on the Bush administration, writes author Paul Loeb in a ...
  • “China is a singularly difficult story to tell because there is SO MUCH good and SO MUCH bad all happening simultaneously,” says ...
  • In the New York Times today and the Washington Post yesterday editorialists derided former CPB Chair Ken Tomlinson — in the Times as a “disastrous zealot” and ...
  • NPR’s Anne Garrels tells the Hartford Courant about traveling with a company of Marines in Iraq: “[T]hey were so disappointed that I was NPR. ...
  • In a feature at Poynter.org, NPR’s Bill Marimow and Daniel Zwerdling share stories of how their work has made a difference.
  • The future of KUT-FM in Austin, Texas, includes a major fundraising effort and the possibility of a different relationship to its university ...
  • The New York Times checks in with a high school radio station in Indianapolis whose license was challenged by a religious broadcaster. Dozens of ...
  • Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories, a PBS documentary about domestic abuse, has come under a withering blogosphere attack for unfairly vilifying fathers. Men’s advocacy ...
  • “I just think that Ira and radio are too perfect a fit to be applied to television very effectively,” says Robert Siegel ...
  • Glenn Mitchell, a talk show host and 30-year veteran of KERA-FM in Dallas, Texas, died Sunday morning at the age of 55.