Quick Takes

  • Update on the affair that almost nobody calls Mommygate: In a Houston Chronicle interview, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings positions herself as an opponent of ...
  • A report released by the Miami-Dade school superintendent calls for the district to exert more control over programming decisions at WLRN-TV/FM, according ...
  • Read the “Special Non-Gay Edition” of comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug.
  • Three Senators introduced a bill today that would allow the licensing of more low-power FM radio stations.
  • Karl Haas, host of Adventures in Good Music, died Feb. 6 at the age of 91. He had hosted the classical music show since ...
  • More than 20 pubTV stations have aired the gay moms episode of Postcards from Buster, or plan to, producing station WGBH told the press. ...
  • Salon asks: has PBS become the White House’s lap dog?
  • Mommygate is prompting a dialogue about tolerance. Columnist Ellen Goodman asks: “… how did acceptance become translated into propaganda? And what on ...
  • The Los Angeles Times profiles Pacific Drift, a new show on the city’s KPCC-FM that aims “to create a community of creative people getting to know ...
  • The Washington Post‘s gossip column bids farewell to Tucker Carlson, who is moving to New Jersey for his new job with MSNBC.
  • New York Times culture critic Frank Rich takes aim at Bustergate, among other flaps, in this column about content cops and the ...
  • WETA-FM in Washington, D.C., may switch to an all-news format, reports the Washington Post.
  • Education Secretary Margaret Spellings defended her Buster sanction yesterday, saying PBS viewers expect educational programming that is “very straight down the line,” ...
  • An installment of The Gillmor Gang features Hearts of Space host Stephen Hill discussing public radio’s reaction to podcasting and other developments in new media. (Via ...
  • “I didn’t understand what all the hullabaloo was about,” KQED President and PBS Board member Jeff Clarke told the San Francisco Chronicle after screening ...