Quick Takes

  • The creators of the Public Radio Exchange are discussing their monster over at Transom.org.
  • Jeffrey Dvorkin’s column on the dustup between Bill O’Reilly and Terry Gross reveals that even NPR admits its own liberal bias, charges ...
  • In a letter to the station’s listeners, WAMU Executive Director Susan Clampitt defends the station’s spending despite mounting deficits and criticism of ...
  • Bill O’Reilly and Terry Gross continue to hash over their confrontation, this time in the Buffalo News. “How thin-skinned can this guy be?” Gross ...
  • “Do you want to say a few words about my growing lust?” asks Terry Gross of Sean Penn in “The NPR Blooper ...
  • “I don’t trust the woman, I feel that she’s got an agenda,” says Fox News host Bill O’Reilly of NPR’s Terry Gross ...
  • After a decade of failed efforts to reverse the tide and rescue the system, PBS is in crisis mode, reports Television Week.
  • “I don’t like the East Coast,” says roving public radio reporter Scott Carrier in The Salt Lake Tribune. “There’s too many people, it’s too ...
  • KOCE will remain a public TV station, it appears. Its operator, a community college district in Orange County, Calif., rejected bids from ...
  • Coast Community College District, operator of KOCE in Orange County, Calif., will decide whether to sell the public TV station at a ...
  • NPR’s Terry Gross was unfair to Bill O’Reilly in her much-discussed interview with the Fox News host, writes NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin. ...
  • The National Association of Broadcasters is trying to discredit a MITRE study of low-power FM, claiming it is technically flawed and falls ...
  • A contributor to DIYmedia.net describes a recent confrontation with NPR President Kevin Klose over low-power FM. “It almost seems like if [former ...
  • “We need public media more than ever,” said Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman at a event in Tucson, Ariz., reports The Tucson Citizen.
  • “I put myself through the ordeal to get definitive proof of what NPR is,” says Bill O’Reilly in The Philadelphia Inquirer of his appearance ...