Quick Takes

  • Public radio’s The Connection devotes an hour to CPB today, with Current Senior Editor Karen Everhart as a guest.
  • Readers of the New York Times weigh in on the CPB fracas: “The Republicans have been heedless to the fact of separation of church ...
  • In the Washington Post, Bob Edwards cites NPR’s “pettiness” in refusing to let Scott Simon promote his new book on Edwards’ XM Radio show. ...
  • Media Matters for America accuses the New York Times of glossing over the political affiliations of CPB’s new ombudsmen.
  • “The best remedy for this week’s public broadcasting crisis isn’t the dismantling of the ‘objectivity and balance’ firewall but the abolishment of ...
  • Just when you thought public broadcasting was already plenty politically-charged, here comes Tom Magliozzi to add his own two cents. The Car ...
  • Big score for social conservatives: Of the nearly 200,000 responses that the Department of Education received after the controversy over lesbian parents ...
  • CPB Board President Ken Tomlinson conducted his own outside review of Now with Bill Moyers, worked to kill a legislative proposal last ...
  • “We must bring the public back into public broadcasting.” In a report outlining financial and political threats to PBS, a consortium of ...
  • A WashingtonPost.com blogger reacts to the news that “California carpetbagger” KCRW.com is promoting concerts in the D.C. area.
  • In a report examining CPB’s push to exert more influence on programming, NPR’s David Folkenflik links CPB Board Chairman Ken Tomlinson to ...
  • Pitching Cooking Under Fire as “reality TV that feeds your brain” is a “a hunk of fat-blobbed baloney that only feeds your cynicism,” writes ...
  • This New York Times Q-and-A with Ken Ferree suggests that the current head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting doesn’t watch or ...
  • You’re either with us or agin’ us, says a leader of a union boycott of the San Francisco Hilton, putting the squeeze ...
  • Christopher Lydon is keeping a blog that looks ahead to the launch of his new show, Open Source.