Quick Takes

  • Corey Flintoff name-checked in the Apr. 5 Zippy comic strip.
  • The Chicago Sun-Times‘ Lloyd Sachs praises NPR’s Anne Garrels, one of the few American journalists still in Baghdad. “There may be no one on ...
  • “The spirit of documentary filmmaking is thriving, but it is against the odds that you will make money doing it,” comments filmmaker ...
  • Public television and radio producers won 11 of this year’s George Foster Peabody Awards.
  • In tonight’s Frontline documentary, “Blair’s War,” the British Prime Minister “comes across as a valiant lead guitarist who struggles to keep two intransigent ...
  • NPR’s round-the-clock war coverage has some listeners restless. “You’re neither Fox nor CNN, and shouldn’t pretend or aspire to be,” writes one. ...
  • “When real drama is going on in the world, people are less interested in watching the drama created in reality television shows.” ...
  • “I got writers’ block. I had no ideas whatever. It was like a mild depression.” The Los Angeles Times profiles British television dramatist Andrew ...
  • War coverage on NPR calls for sensitive music selection and a possible cutback on April 1 hijinks, reports the L.A. Times.
  • Satirist Barry Crimmins details his square-peg encounter with public radio’s On Point: “That’s right; NPR was soliciting me to satirize democracy for showing signs ...
  • Does it make sense to stop advertising during war? Two pubcasters weigh in on the question posed by an AdAge.com opinion poll.
  • Radio-Television News Directors Association announced regional winners of its 2003 Edward R. Murrow Awards.
  • The “cover-all-sides style” of the BBC’s war coverage has brought “a steady fusillade of criticism,” reports Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post. Nearly 230 ...
  • War led organizers to postpone nationwide protests of NPR’s Middle East coverage. Scheduled for tomorrow, the protests were to take place at ...
  • Laura Rothenberg, 22, died last week after her body rejected a new pair of lungs. Rothenberg recorded an audio diary of her ...