People for the American Way called it a “landslide.” Urged on by pubcasting backers around the country, the House voted 284-140 to ...
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June 23, 2005
Patricia Harrison, the controversial candidate for the CPB presidency favored by Board Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson, has been named President and CEO, AP ...
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June 23, 2005
Who supports public broadcasting? In the heat of battle over federal funding to the field, “Democrats in Congress and liberal organizations have ...
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June 23, 2005
“The White House is always looking for liberal bias in the news media, and I can help them find it,” writes John ...
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June 22, 2005
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviews Bill Moyers on the right wing’s agenda for public broadcasting.
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June 22, 2005
“Mr. Tomlinson has not politicized PBS. Bill Moyers politicized PBS.” So ...
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June 22, 2005
“The appointment of the CPB ombudsmen has, indeed, accomplished something: It has sown doubts (or reinforced existing ones) among many listeners (and ...
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June 21, 2005
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, ...
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June 21, 2005
The researcher who evaluated the political content of Now with Bill Moyers worked for 20 years at a journalism center aligned with the conservative ...
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June 21, 2005
The CPB Board postponed its decision on hiring a new chief executive until Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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June 21, 2005
The executive committee of NETA, one of the largest associations of pubTV stations, told the CPB Board in a letter May 31 ...
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June 21, 2005
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 ...
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June 20, 2005
Documentary filmmakers Tracy Strain and Randall MacLowry were to marry yesterday, according to the New York Times. They recently collaborated on “Building the Alaska ...
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June 20, 2005
While the CPB Board meets in D.C. this week, critics are planning events criticizing plans to hire a Republican leader as CPB ...
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June 19, 2005
Groups of senators and representatives wrote to CPB on Friday urging that it delay the appointment of a new president. Twenty-one reps ...