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  • “Could it be that [Bill] O’Reilly is living up to the old reporter’s saw of not letting the facts get in the way of a good story?” So asks NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin in his latest “Media Matters” column, which addresses the perennial complaint that NPR is too left-wing. (O’Reilly in Current, 3/25/02.)
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    June 4, 2002
  • People
    Stanford Calderwood

    Series founder Stanford Calderwood dies

    Stanford Calderwood, who served only a few months as president of WGBH, Boston, but initiated one of its most enduring franchises, Masterpiece Theatre, died May 9 [2002]. He was 81. Calderwood brought together costume dramas from British TV producers with a long-term underwriter, Mobil Corp.—a formula that defines the series today, more than three decades after it went on the air in January 1971. He served in World War II before entering journalism and becoming a marketing exec for Polaroid Corp., based in Cambridge, Mass. After putting Polaroid money behind Julia Child and other WGBH projects, he succeeded Hartford Gunn as president of the station.
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    June 3, 2002

  • WBUR in Boston is only one of a number of news outlets targeted for boycott by pro-Israel press critics, as reported in “Current” June 3. Brooke Gladstone of “On the Media” talked with a critic of newspaper coverage — and with a Jewish journalist uneasy with the idea of boycotts.
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    June 3, 2002

  • St. Petersburg Times pictures new Tampa station chief Richard Lobo as a turnaround expert at a station that needs a turnaround. The paper reported that WEDU No. 2 exec Elsie Garner is leaving as Lobo arrives.
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    June 3, 2002

  • Bill O’Reilly of Fox News won’t stop whuppin’ on NPR, so NPR whups back. (Low in column.)
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    May 31, 2002

  • Boston’s WBUR has lost more than $1 million in revenue due to protests of its Middle East coverage.
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    May 29, 2002

  • Louis Wiley, executive editor of Frontline, discusses his program and its World spinoff with JournalismJobs.com.
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    May 29, 2002

  • There’s now a website for the budding Public Radio Weekend project.
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    May 28, 2002

  • NPR’s On the Media to Fox News star Bill O’Reilly: Stop complaining! You’re invited!
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    May 22, 2002

  • Frontline/World aims to target younger audiences with a fast-moving mix of international reporting.
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    May 21, 2002

  • Jim Lehrer on ABC’s thwarted move to oust Nightline: it may be time for the commercial networks to get out of the news business.
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    May 20, 2002

  • Nina Totenberg tells the Buffalo News she’s turned down TV anchor jobs (including at CNN) to stay on her Supreme Court beat at NPR.
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    May 14, 2002

  • PBS prez Pat Mitchell tells the L.A. Times she “had no idea how hard it was going to be.”
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    May 13, 2002

  • Markey, Dodd will back trust fund for digital content

    A bill introduced in the House May 2 brings the DOIT proposal for a trust fund supporting digital educational content one step closer to “done it.” The legislation introduced by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) proposes to invest proceeds from spectrum auctions in a permanent trust fund for that purpose. Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) is preparing a similar bill in the Senate, earmarking 50 percent of all future auction proceeds for such a fund. Markey’s Wireless Technology Investment and Digital Dividends Act (H.R. 4641) also provides for up to $300 million in funding for public broadcasting’s digital conversion. The bill looks very much like the trust fund proposed last April by the Digital Promise Project led by former PBS President Lawrence Grossman and ex-FCC Chairman Newton Minow.
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    May 13, 2002

  • Public radio’s Sonic Memorial Project has an online home.
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    May 13, 2002