Quick Takes

  • CPB gave more than $2.3 million in grants to 29 public radio stations to help them convert to digital broadcasting.
  • NPR’s Anne Garrels received CPB’s 2004 Edward R. Murrow Award this week, the most prestigious honor in public radio.
  • Bill O’Reilly reportedly is barring Fresh Air from relicensing segments of his much-discussed appearance on the show.
  • A McSweeney’s writer recasts Bob Edwards’ book tour as a Grateful Dead experience: “With the NPR tours, it’s like, I can’t even express ...
  • “It kind of bothers me two people are doing it, because they’re going to do half my job,” says Bob Edwards in ...
  • Researchers at Ball State University’s Center for Media Design found by observing a (small) sample of media consumers that Americans use media ...
  • Filmmaker Michael Moore calls Democracy Now host Amy Goodman a “national treasure” in the Buffalo News.
  • The Washington Post‘s Marc Fisher touches on the ongoing tussle between news and music programming on public radio.
  • In the New York Times Magazine, Ira Glass reflects on how the FCC’s crusade for decency brings him closer to Howard Stern.
  • Alexander Acosta, assistant attorney general for civil rights, said the Justice Department reopened the 1955 Emmett Till murder case after recent films ...
  • San Francisco Chronicle TV critic Tim Goodman marks the 50th anniversary of KQED with a column excoriating PBS and its local member station: “Rarely ...
  • A teacher in Utah was suspended after showing Frontline‘s “Merchants of Cool” to middle school students. A school official told the Associated Press ...
  • Ira Glass’s girlfriend tells the Houston Chronicle that Glass is “not the master storyteller he’s made out to be” and thinks too much about ...
  • Blogger Dru Blood shares a dream about Bob Edwards.
  • Film critic Elvis Mitchell, who recently left The New York Times, tells Journal-isms that he might not continue his weekly chats on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. (Via ...