Quick Takes

  • People for the American Way called it a “landslide.” Urged on by pubcasting backers around the country, the House voted 284-140 to ...
  • Patricia Harrison, the controversial candidate for the CPB presidency favored by Board Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson, has been named President and CEO, AP ...
  • Who supports public broadcasting? In the heat of battle over federal funding to the field, “Democrats in Congress and liberal organizations have ...
  • “The White House is always looking for liberal bias in the news media, and I can help them find it,” writes John ...
  • Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviews Bill Moyers on the right wing’s agenda for public broadcasting.
  • “Mr. Tomlinson has not politicized PBS. Bill Moyers politicized PBS.” So ...
  • “The appointment of the CPB ombudsmen has, indeed, accomplished something: It has sown doubts (or reinforced existing ones) among many listeners (and ...
  • Slate reviews MSNBC’s new talk show, The Situation with Tucker Carlson, finding it “shallow, but far from unwatchable; it zips along at a healthy clip, ...
  • The researcher who evaluated the political content of Now with Bill Moyers worked for 20 years at a journalism center aligned with the conservative ...
  • The CPB Board postponed its decision on hiring a new chief executive until Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Times.
  • The executive committee of NETA, one of the largest associations of pubTV stations, told the CPB Board in a letter May 31 ...
  • The old “Save Sesame Street” e-mail hoax has made it harder for some people to take cyber-petitions about public broadcasting’s funding crisis ...
  • Documentary filmmakers Tracy Strain and Randall MacLowry were to marry yesterday, according to the New York Times. They recently collaborated on “Building the Alaska ...
  • While the CPB Board meets in D.C. this week, critics are planning events criticizing plans to hire a Republican leader as CPB ...
  • Groups of senators and representatives wrote to CPB on Friday urging that it delay the appointment of a new president. Twenty-one reps ...