Tag: Political influence
Life cycle of a reform: independence of CPB Program Fund
Ron Hull, a former director of the Program Fund, reflects on the value of buffer from partisan politics Jan. 2, 1979 — Robben ...Unleash TV grantmakers and creativity thrives
Ron Hull, a leader in Nebraska public television since the 1950s, recommends that CPB consider reinstating the semi-autonomy of its grantmakers in TV ...Where the Crossroads films and funding went
CPB’s big America at a Crossroads initiative funded 20 independently produced documentaries on aspects of the post-9/11 world, at a cost not wildly above ...Clash at Crossroads
Could CPB have avoided the public collision of wills over one of the America at a Crossroads documentaries that tainted its $20 million project ...‘Public trust is the rating that matters most to PBS’
Pat Mitchell, then president of PBS, delivered this talk May 24, 2005, at the National Press Club, in the midst of escalating ...Congress reacts hotly to station donor-list swaps with Democrats
Suddenly, pubcasting is in for a severe talking-to, if not a whupping. The House subcommittee that held such a congenial hearing on ...The emperor’s old clothes:
it’s time to retailor CPBNearly three decades of observing CPB close-up have convinced me that only an essential change in the way CPB Board members are ...
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