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  • The Washington Post profiles Diane Rehm and her husband, John, who have written a new book about their difficult 45-year marriage.
  • Bob Steele of the Poynter Institute praises the “gravitas” of NPR’s Sept. 11 coverage.
  • NPR’s “Present at the Creation” series gets some ink in a New York Times story about backward-looking arts coverage in the media.
  • If you watch just one show about the anniversary of Sept. 11, Frontline‘s “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero” ought to be it, says Thane Peterson of BusinessWeek.
  • Currency, car air fresheners and gerbil shields: just some of the uses Car Talk listeners are suggesting for Tom and Ray’s hoard of yogurt lids, the leftovers from a bungled anti-SUV campaign.
  • NPR commentator Cokie Roberts tells USA Today that she has received over 1,000 letters, mostly from strangers, since she told the media that she has breast cancer.
  • Nearly all of the money released by Congress in fiscal year 2002 for public TV and radio’s digital conversion will go to help the smallest public TV stations meet their May 2003 transition deadline, CPB has decided.
  • Visit the website of Nuevos Horizontes (New Horizons), a Spanish-language radio program from the University of Illinois.
  • Garrison Keillor gets a satiric makeover as “Harrison Taylor” in a mock interview for The Rake.
  • A new website produced by WGBH aggregates content from public TV and radio on the global connections that contributed to unrest in the Middle East. Another recently launched ‘GBH site helps local parents learn about education standards and testing in the Boston Public School System and the state of Massachusetts.
  • Paul Ingles, an independent producer in public radio, has a website.
  • Did you know Eastern Public Radio has a website? Well, it does.
  • Arthur Cohen, formerly of WETA, WNYC and the Radio Research Consortium, now has a website for his consulting business, Whole Station Solutions.
  • Mary Lou [Retton]’s Flip-Flop Shop has premiered on public TV with a serious attempt to help kids deal with emotions and “an overriding, self-conscious zaniness,” writes Lynne Heffley in the Los Angeles Times.
  • Barney & Friends “shrewdly combines elements of current reality hits Big Brother and The Real World, says Kansas City Star critic Aaron Barnhart.