With the Corporation for Public Broadcasting eliminated, public radio and TV face their greatest crisis yet. But philanthropy can and should fill the gap.
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Post-Florence, The Fourth Estate Must Expand Its Climate Coverage
Once the water recedes, the excuses must recede as well. After the devastation and death wrought by Hurricane Florence, American print, broadcast and cable media outlets have a journalistic obligation to expand its coverage of the existential crisis of human-caused climate change. No longer can we tolerate having extensive coverage of extreme weather without that […]
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O-MG: A New Low for NBC
Omarosa Manigault-Newman once said Trump’s critics would have to bow down to him one day. Shame on NBC for bowing down to her today.
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PBS Plans to Give Us a Progressive Talk Show, Too, Right?
We all know the sad saga of public television bending over backwards to appease right-wing interests and dull the Republican desire to put Big Bird in a skillet, but this is beyond ridiculous: As the Donald Trump administration mulls whacking its funding for PBS, the pubcaster said today that it is launching a conservative talk […]
