Quick Takes

  • Northern Michigan University is cutting its budget in response to state financial woes–and its public TV and radio stations are on the ...
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    March 26, 2003

  • Bill Moyers’ Becoming American: The Chinese Experience is a “model documentary that gets almost everything right,” says a New York Times reviewer. “It crams nearly two ...
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    March 25, 2003

  • An anti-war activist believes he was dismissed by NPR’s Scott Simon in a recent on-air interview.
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    March 25, 2003

  • Pacifica continues to land coverage with its antiwar slant, an oddity on any radio dial, this time with a write-up in the Wall ...
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    March 24, 2003

  • Two public radio news directors are among the journalists who tell the Poynter Institute’s Jill Geisler how they’re covering the war. And ...
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    March 20, 2003

  • The NewsHour performs “a quadruple double correction with three half-twists” for Fox News Sunday With Tony Snow, reports the Washington Post. (Scroll down.) Online NewsHour posted the ...
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    March 20, 2003

  • A Mighty Wind, the latest improv comedy from Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, Best of Show), culminates with a spoof of a public television special. Harry Shearer, host ...
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    March 19, 2003

  • Following in the footsteps of This American Life, To the Best Of Our Knowledge goes Hollywood. Listen to the trailer for TTBOOK: The Movie. (RealAudio required.)
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    March 19, 2003

  • For now, at least, NPR is keeping correspondent Anne Garrels in Baghdad, reports The Washington Post.
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    March 18, 2003

  • On the Media‘s Bob Garfield had a little run-in with Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson–over a bagel.
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    March 18, 2003

  • Time reviews NPR’s growth and touches on a few of the other biggies in the field.
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    March 17, 2003

  • NPR ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin says NPR commentaries have excluded expressions of “unabashed and unconditional support (and there is lot of it) for ...
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    March 17, 2003

  • The New York Times previews Domestic Violence, a Frederick Wiseman documentary that airs this week on PBS stations. “Mr. Wiseman subscribes to the “give them enough ...
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    March 17, 2003

  • American Masters profiles Alice Waters, the cook and restaurateur who “made it possible to feel progressive while eating really good food in really nice ...
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    March 17, 2003

  • The Los Angeles Times focuses on the polar-opposite views local listeners can get from Pacifica’s KPFK and its hawkish right-wing neighbors on AM.
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    March 14, 2003