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Partisan appointment

Money and politics

The emperor’s old clothes:
it’s time to retailor CPB

By David Stewart | September 8, 1997

Nearly three decades of observing CPB close-up have convinced me that only an essential change in the way CPB Board members are selected offers some prospect of achieving the bright future projected for the organization by the first Carnegie Commission and the Congress in 1967.

System/Policy

Public broadcasting’s unholy link to politics

By | July 1, 1985

A 1985 blowup over a trip to Moscow revealed that political animals were again entrusted with shielding public TV from political pressure

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