Quick Takes

  • A lengthy Boston Globe story about the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America includes an account of the group’s ongoing campaign ...
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    February 10, 2003

  • As if a Dan Schorr Cupid weren’t enough, NPR’s special e-Valentines also include some annoying music.
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    February 10, 2003

  • Documentaries airing on HBO and PBS tonight are “among the most inventive, expressive programs produced this year in observation of Black History ...
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    February 10, 2003

  • Frontline producer Barak Goodman discusses “Failure to Protect: The Caseworker Files” on washingtonpost.com.
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    February 7, 2003

  • Michael Lazar, president of Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, tells the Sacramento Bee that new competitor KQED is “not going to be offering the ...
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    February 7, 2003

  • San Francisco’s KQED will move into Sacramento next year with its $3 million purchase of a religious FM station.
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    February 6, 2003

  • Another ethics watchdog takes issue with NPR’s Cokie Roberts serving on a presidential panel. “Few news organizations would allow their journalists to ...
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    February 6, 2003

  • A NOVA producer and a Lockheed Martin engineer will discuss the “Battle of the X-Planes” documentary today at the Washington Post‘s website.
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    February 5, 2003

  • The New York Times profiles peace activist Leslie Cagan, who (as the article fails to mention) is also chair of the interim board of ...
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    February 5, 2003

  • The only camera crew at a recent New York hearing on media ownership was from PBS’s NOW with Bill Moyers, notes the L.A. Times‘s Brian Lowry.
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    February 5, 2003

  • The latest Eastern Public Radio newsletter includes updates on digital radio, station hires and more.
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    February 5, 2003

  • WUSF in Tampa let go of eight employees in a reorganization.
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    February 4, 2003

  • Technical problems have knocked WCVW-TV in Richmond, Va., off the air.
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    February 4, 2003

  • “We’ve ridden the tiger before,” says PBS’s Wayne Godwin of the tough market for PBS underwriting sales. The Los Angeles Times reports on why ...
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    February 4, 2003

  • The Washington Post takes note of the federal budget’s possible blow to pubcasting.
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    February 4, 2003