Quick Takes

  • The first anniversary edition of the Association of Independents in Radio Member Spotlight features all AIR members, tonight at 8 p.m. ET.
  • Rich Tucker of the Heritage Foundation hammers public TV as an anachronism on Cybercast News Service. Tucker jumps on the bandwagon recently ...
  • In Slate magazine, Stephen Metcalf tells how America’s Test Kitchen wins over viewers despite or perhaps because of its “overwhelming wonkishness” of its food talk and ...
  • Aaron Barnhart of the Kansas City Star advises viewers how they can catch PBS shows like Independent Lens that local station KCPT chooses not ...
  • A Wisconsin company has introduced a board game based on public radio’s Whad’Ya Know?, complete with a Michael Feldman bobblehead, reports The Capital Times.
  • In his latest “Media Matters” column, NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin addresses the case of an incomplete transcript and suggests NPR should not ...
  • Andrea Levin charges in The New York Post that the effect of NPR’s Middle East coverage “is to promote the views of Israel’s detractors.” ...
  • Sparks fly on WHYY’s Fresh Air as Terry Gross interviews Bill O’Reilly, host of Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor and frequent critic of NPR. Listen to ...
  • The Baltimore Sun profiles Ira Glass and also notes the death of his mother.
  • TV critics review Frontline‘s season opener, “Truth, War and Consequences,” in the New York Times, Washington Post and Salt Lake Tribune.
  • WTMD (Towson, Md.) and WEMC (Harrisonburg, Va.) were among 28 radio stations fined $3,000 by the FCC today for failing to keep ...
  • Heavy viewers of the Fox News Channel are nearly four times as likely to hold demonstrably untrue positions about the war in ...
  • Public TV execs and viewers respond to an anti-PBS op-ed that ran in several newspapers: the Salem Statesman Journal, the St. Petersburg Times and the Minneapolis Star Tribune ...
  • The secret operations of a New York City agency obscure the likely sale of city TV and radio stations WNYE, reports the New ...
  • Talking with mediabistro.com, Washington Post magazine critic Peter Carlson reveals a perk of his job is getting the New Yorker delivered to his door. “I thought ...