Thursday, June 30, 2005
Sunday, June 26, 2005
"The Armstrong Williams NewsHour"
"The Armstrong Williams NewsHour"
This Frank RICH is well worth reading by anyone following the Corporation for Public Broadcasting issues.
This Frank RICH is well worth reading by anyone following the Corporation for Public Broadcasting issues.
Friday, June 24, 2005
Sweet Unity Farms
Sweet Unity Farms
Here is the website for the coffee coop in Tanzania just profiled on All Things Considered and broadcast by WUNC.
Here is the website for the coffee coop in Tanzania just profiled on All Things Considered and broadcast by WUNC.
The House of Representatives has voted to restore a portion of deep cuts proposed for public radio and television.
This "update" appears on the WUNC home page. It is one thing for WUNC to inform its listeners and others who come to the website about what is happening on an issue like this. But thanking WUNC supporters "who helped make this change" strikes me as confusing providing information with lobbying. The latter is not the role permitted for WUNC, like it or not.
"The House Votes to Restore Funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
(Updated June 24,2005)
The House of Representatives has voted to restore a portion of deep cuts proposed for public radio and television.
We want to thank all of North Carolina Public Radio � WUNC�s supporters who helped make this change. Members of Congress heard from thousands of listeners and viewers who wrote or called to express their support.
While this is encouraging news, the restoration of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting addresses only part of the overall funding for public radio and TV targeted for cuts in the fiscal year that begins in October. Programs that pay for capital improvements, and money that supports children's television production, are still targeted for elimination.
Listeners and viewers still need to be heard on whether they want these cuts to stand or see full funding for stations and national programs maintained.
The Senate subcommittee that considers appropriations for public broadcasting will be facing pressure to balance the funds available with program needs. That subcommittee, chaired by Arlen Specter (R-PA), is scheduled to meet July 12 to make funding recommendations. The full Senate Appropriations Committee is likely to act July 14. "
"The House Votes to Restore Funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
(Updated June 24,2005)
The House of Representatives has voted to restore a portion of deep cuts proposed for public radio and television.
We want to thank all of North Carolina Public Radio � WUNC�s supporters who helped make this change. Members of Congress heard from thousands of listeners and viewers who wrote or called to express their support.
While this is encouraging news, the restoration of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting addresses only part of the overall funding for public radio and TV targeted for cuts in the fiscal year that begins in October. Programs that pay for capital improvements, and money that supports children's television production, are still targeted for elimination.
Listeners and viewers still need to be heard on whether they want these cuts to stand or see full funding for stations and national programs maintained.
The Senate subcommittee that considers appropriations for public broadcasting will be facing pressure to balance the funds available with program needs. That subcommittee, chaired by Arlen Specter (R-PA), is scheduled to meet July 12 to make funding recommendations. The full Senate Appropriations Committee is likely to act July 14. "
Patricia HARRISON named CPB President & CEO
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
This program on The State of Things today looks like it has the potential to shed more light on what is happening in Washington, and in North Carolina, with respect to federal funds and federal control of public broadcasting. There has been a fair amount of coverage of this issue on WUNC and in its website. Does it seem like the right amount? Too much? Not enough?
More here from The New York Times today.
Good stuff here from NPR's ombudsman.
And this about one of the guests.....It says that David FOLKENFLIK worked most recently for the Herald Sun in Durham, although the wording is a little vague. In any case, a search of the Herald-Sun's archives turn up nothing with his name in it going back to 1998. Perhaps it is a function of the Herald-Sun's archives or maybe he worked there prior to 1998.
Joan Siefert ROSE keeps saying, as she did today, that WUNC receives no state funding. Ask her whether WUNC receives any free services from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (the State of North Carolina). The answer is yes, and the total is hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. It is at least disingenous, if not worse, to keep making this, at least, deceptive claim.
This program on The State of Things today looks like it has the potential to shed more light on what is happening in Washington, and in North Carolina, with respect to federal funds and federal control of public broadcasting. There has been a fair amount of coverage of this issue on WUNC and in its website. Does it seem like the right amount? Too much? Not enough?
More here from The New York Times today.
Good stuff here from NPR's ombudsman.
And this about one of the guests.....It says that David FOLKENFLIK worked most recently for the Herald Sun in Durham, although the wording is a little vague. In any case, a search of the Herald-Sun's archives turn up nothing with his name in it going back to 1998. Perhaps it is a function of the Herald-Sun's archives or maybe he worked there prior to 1998.
Joan Siefert ROSE keeps saying, as she did today, that WUNC receives no state funding. Ask her whether WUNC receives any free services from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (the State of North Carolina). The answer is yes, and the total is hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. It is at least disingenous, if not worse, to keep making this, at least, deceptive claim.
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