USA Today profiles StoryCorps, the new oral history project from Sound Portraits Productions. “It’s history, bottom-up,” says Studs Terkel. [Current article.]

On the Media‘s Bob Garfield calls Terry Gross’s talk with Bill O’Reilly “an uncharacteristically ham-fisted hatchet job.” But he concedes, “[I]f I were face to face with him, it would be hard for me to resist what Gross could not resist.” (Via Romenesko.)

A Washington Post reader decries WAMU’s decision to drop bluegrass, while another supports the changes General Manager Susan Clampitt has made.

Technology analysts predict that Tivo will soon be eclipsed by the DVR-ready set-top boxes offered by cable companies, reports the New York Times.

New Hampshire Public Radio and Iowa’s KUNI/KHKE have started a weblog devoted to 2004 election coverage.

“NPR ombudsman Jeffrey Dworkin [sic] definitely needs to look for a new line of work,” opines a Capital Times columnist, weighing in on, yes, the Gross/O’Reilly affair.

David Isay discussed StoryCorps, his new oral history project, on Morning Edition. Also, today’s Talk of the Nation takes up the future of public television.

The creators of the Public Radio Exchange are discussing their monster over at Transom.org.

Jeffrey Dvorkin’s column on the dustup between Bill O’Reilly and Terry Gross reveals that even NPR admits its own liberal bias, charges conservative columnist Brent Bozell on TownHall.com.

In a letter to the station’s listeners, WAMU Executive Director Susan Clampitt defends the station’s spending despite mounting deficits and criticism of her leadership both within and outside of the station. The letter is posted to the WAMU website.

Bill O’Reilly and Terry Gross continue to hash over their confrontation, this time in the Buffalo News. “How thin-skinned can this guy be?” Gross asks of her sparring partner. (Via Romenesko.)

“Do you want to say a few words about my growing lust?” asks Terry Gross of Sean Penn in “The NPR Blooper Reel,” over at The Morning News.

“I don’t trust the woman, I feel that she’s got an agenda,” says Fox News host Bill O’Reilly of NPR’s Terry Gross in the Philadelphia Daily News. “Her sensibilities lie in the area that I’m evil and what I’m doing is bad.”

After a decade of failed efforts to reverse the tide and rescue the system, PBS is in crisis mode, reports Television Week.

Last week a miniature mobile recording studio came to rest in Vanderbilt Hall of New York’s Grand Central Terminal, marking the debut of StoryCorps, an ambitious undertaking led by independent public radio producer David Isay. StoryCorps aims to popularize the recording of oral histories by making it easy for average Americans to interview one another. Each mini-studio, called a StoryBooth, features tables, chairs, digital recording equipment and a trained facilitator in a quiet, comfortable setting. Booth users are encouraged to bring older relatives and, in 40 minutes of talking, tease out their stories. They walk away with a compact disc of the interview, and another copy goes to a new Library of Congress archive.