Quick Takes

  • Read a suite of dispatches from a conference on public radio talk shows, held in April.
  • A New York Times critic lauds tonight’s report from Iraq by Gwynne Roberts as “the timeliest possible beginning to Wide Angle,” a new PBS foreign affairs ...
  • The L.A. Times profiles public radio’s Studio 360, which host Kurt Andersen says goes beyond high culture to show us the art “on TV and in ...
  • Staci Kramer of the Online Journalism Review supports NPR’s new linking policy—with a few reservations. [Read the Current story about the debate.]
  • LA Times critic Howard Rosenberg describes PBS’s American Family as the best of television’s new Latino family dramas: “It’s rich and atmospheric, witty and a major ...
  • The conflict between NPR and the Traditional Values Coalition is on the agenda of the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing today ...
  • Ken Burns brags the sound will be so good on the forthcoming digitally remastered version of The Civil War that “when you see Pickett’s ...
  • The secretary of Pacifica‘s board has asked the network to renegotiate its freshly-inked contract with the show Democracy Now!. Carol Spooner alleges that the ...
  • Nearly half of PBS’s member station broadcast Louis Rukeyser’s new CNBC series, but public TV officials reject suggestions that these stations are ...
  • Teens take control on 2K Nation, a new show on the Washington, D.C. Pacifica affiliate WPFW.
  • A New York Times critic says the PBS four-parter series Great Projects, starting tonight, will impress viewers with the foresight of big-thinking civil engineers and the ...
  • Katie Davis, formerly of NPR, appears today in a Washington Post column, talking about the Washington, D.C. park where she spends a lot of ...
  • NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin summarizes the flap over the network’s linking policies in his latest “Media Matters” column.
  • On a second try, BBC is seen likely to win regulatory approval for BBC3, a new British TV channel for ages 25-34, ...
  • Cory Doctorow, NPR’s principal critic during this whole linking debacle, still finds plenty to dislike about NPR’s revised policy. The latest article ...