Quick Takes

  • Right-wing media watchdog L. Brent Bozell tappity-taps on a wedge between public TV and Bill Moyers: “Earth to PBS: When you are ...
  • The irony of the debate over objectivity and balance within public radio is that “the marketplace has no issues with it,” writes ...
  • The sole black employee at Milwaukee’s WUWM-FM has filed a racial discrimination complaint with Wisconsin’s Equal Rights Division, reports the Journal Sentinel.
  • “I find it upsetting that NPR sees me as competition,” says Bob Edwards from his perch at XM in a Boston Globe article.
  • Bill Kling, president of Minnesota Public Radio, tells the Minnesota Star-Tribune that he has heard nothing from CPB to indicate that the agency will ...
  • BBC news output will be affected Monday by the first of several limited strikes protesting plans to cut 4,000 jobs, Reuters reported. ...
  • More on Kenneth Tomlinson/CPB: NPR reports that two years ago, Tomlinson suggested bringing in Fox News Channel anchor Brit Hume to talk ...
  • The Washington Post reviews the controversy over CPB’s push to balance public broadcasting in a profile of board chairman Kenneth Tomlinson. “I ...
  • Salon media critic Eric Boehlert writes that while there are plenty of questions surrounding CPB’s new content monitors, “it is CPB’s tapping of two ...
  • The progressive Capital Times in Madison, Wisc., recounts Bill Moyers’ Sunday speech at the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis, ...
  • CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson worked to initiate outside studies of public radio as well as TV, the New York Times reports. “Late ...
  • In 10 years, former APTS and CPB exec Ric Grefe built the American Institute of Graphic Arts from what was perceived to ...
  • Cartoonist Mark Fiore envisions a “Corporation for Politicized Broadcasting.”
  • Calling CPB Board Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson’s efforts to bring more conservatives into public broadcasting “extremely troubling,” two House Democrats asked CPB’s Inspector ...
  • “I don’t want to achieve balance by taking programs that are the favorites of good liberals off the air,” said CPB chairman ...