NPR should not have aired the testimony of the “BTK” killer, says NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin.

Betsy Gardella was named g.m. of New Hampshire Public Radio, replacing Mark Handley.

Slate blogger Mickey Kaus takes exception to the New York Times Magazine‘s fawning June 26 profile of KCRW’s Nic Harcourt. “Harcourt’s scared to rock,” Kaus claims. (via mediabistro.com)

The Situation with Tucker Carlson may not be bad for America, but does seem to weaken the “intellectual standing” of its host, writes a New York Times critic.

With Apple’s introduction of podcast features into iTunes, “every public radio station probably should be offering podcasts by now,” writes Steve Outing.

Garrison Keillor blends optimism and wistfulness in his debut newspaper column.

A Berkeley Daily Planet article details some of the latest disputes engulfing Pacifica’s KPFA-FM.

Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg says public TV is liberal (“it just is”) and shot through with contradictions between its claims and its reality. Cal Thomas meanwhile focuses on Moyers, citing a Current article.

The progressive website Media Matters asked CPB to recognize the Freedom of Information Act and release the bias studies commissioned by Chairman Ken Tomlinson. CPB contends that it isn’t subject to FOIA scrutiny but in the past has pledged to abide by it voluntarily.

Only 42 percent of Americans think the press generally stands up for America, says a study by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. The score on that question returns to pre-9/11 days. After 9/11 it soared to 69 percent. Views different greatly by party affiliation, Pew notes: The press is too critical, say 67 percent of Repubs, 24 percent of Dems.

The National Park Service is rebalancing the politics of a video shown to visitors of the Lincoln Memorial, adding footage of pro-gun and pro-war marches and other right-side events to scenes of civil rights rallies and the like, AP reported.

In today’s Washington Post, public broadcasters and reporters labeled with the scarlet “L” respond to the content analysis study commissioned by CPB Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson. The Los Angeles Times and New York Times also report on the study in today’s editions. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), who released the study, called it “a little nutty.”

Marketplace reports on the competitive threats and economic challenges facing public TV.

NPR reports on and provides downloads of The Mann Report, a CPB consultant’s study of political balance on PBS and NPR programs.

Pubcasters should be thrilled that the House restored CPB’s 2006 funding, but “that price will be paid, as is so often the case in today’s Washington, by the people who depend on government help for essential health care and education and job-training services,” writes David Broder in the Washington Post. The columnist looks at the programs that were cut to enable return of the system’s funds.