Quick Takes

  • The Baltimore Sun is reporting that Maryland Public Television and Fortune might bounce Louis Rukeyser from Wall Street Week.
  • NPR listeners have launched an Internet campaign to “Bring Back Linda” Wertheimer.
  • Hardball host Chris Matthews has apologized for dissing Jim Lehrer.
  • Glenn Heller, a devoted critic of Albany’s WAMC-FM, maintains an extensive collection of articles about the station at wamc.net. (Note: the enterprising Heller ...
  • The Berkshire Eagle has picked up Current‘s Feb. 25 story about the public TV series Visionaries.
  • Want to see how multi-channel digital terrestrial radio could work–if it ever becomes a reality? (As it stands, NPR is one of ...
  • Has NPR adequately addressed complaints over a report on anthrax investigations that mentioned the Traditional Values Coalition? NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin weighs ...
  • There’s now a website for the Public Radio Collaboration, formerly known as the Mega Project. This year’s collaboration will focus on the ...
  • The latest Harper’s features an article by independent public radio producer Scott Carrier about post-Taliban Afghanistan, and Hearing Voices adds to it with ...
  • Minnesota Public Radio responds to a snarky take on it in the Feb. 20 City Pages.
  • Over the weekend the Washington Post and New York Times both ran articles about public radio’s “Yiddish Radio Project,” which starts tomorrow on All Things Considered.
  • Former CNN Washington bureau chief Frank Sesno is collaborating with George Mason University, where he recently accepted a teaching position, and WETA-TV ...
  • The University of Kansas has withdrawn an invitation to have historian and NewsHour contributor Doris Kearns Goodwin speak … (Topeka Capital-Journal)
  • Carlson disavows Duggan’s strong attack on advertising

    PBS President Ervin Duggan’s strongly worded opposition to advertising created a public rift in the “presidents group” that has been coordinating relations ...
  • All those letters — what do they mean to Congress?

    For an industry that has “elitist” planted on its back like a hard-to-reach sticky label, the most critical piece of public broadcasting’s ...