Bill Moyers | Posted 04.18.2012
Imagine if you turned on your TV set someday soon and were greeted by Sesame Street, brought to you by the letter C, for "creeping campaign cash corruption." Perhaps that's a bit of a stretch, but as the late William F. Buckley, Jr., used to say, the point survives the exaggeration.
Reuters | Posted 04.13.2012
* 9th Circuit says FCC political ad ban too broad * Dissent fears for future of public broadcasting * FCC ban on ads for...
nytimes.com | ELIZABETH JENSEN | Posted 05.23.2012
Under intense public pressure from independent documentary filmmakers, including a Twitter campaign, PBS on Thursday agreed to find a new home next se...
Bill Moyers | Posted 05.23.2012
The team at PBS consists of dedicated people; constantly looking for ways to increase their audience. But there is always a danger, in any organization, of only seeing the world from the top down, and then counting heads to measure whether something is good or not.
Bill Moyers | Posted 01.16.2012
There are still millions and millions of people who need public broadcasting. And millions more who will find us if we but give them the real news, the cultural experiences, and the opportunity to learn that are otherwise missing in their lives.
Network Awesome | Posted 11.08.2011
It is a unique form of heartbreak for a prophet to be denied the culmination of his visions. For us, Carl Sagan may have been born at exactly the right time. He was six years old at the 1939 World's Fair, where he found both science and television waiting for him, fabulous and fascinating.
Rick Steves | Posted 11.07.2011
From my perch, I survey the village. Chocolate log cabins are buttressed by a winter's supply of firewood lovingly stacked all the way to the eaves.
Posted 07.23.2011
PBS will begin doing something it has never done before: interrupting its shows with promotional spots. The public television network announced at ...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 07.10.2011
NEW YORK — PBS plans to run arts programming on Friday nights for nine straight weeks starting in October to highlight a subject where it can of...
Bill Moyers | Posted 05.25.2011
Come on now: Let's take a breath and put this NPR fracas into perspective. Just as public radio struggles against yet another assault from the its l...
Paul Snyder | Posted 05.25.2011
You'd think with all that background singing Christmas songs, Jessica Simpson would appreciate the meaning of Christmas. However, the news from Roseland Ballroom, where she shot her Christmas special last Thursday, was not-at-all festive.
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — PBS station KCET said Friday it's dropping out of the public TV system and going independent because of a dispute over fees and pr...
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
Given the profound significance of education in our lives, it's no surprise there's no shortage of movies on the subject. Here are ten of my own favorite films about school, learning, and those mostly noble souls who teach.
Lowell Peterson | Posted 05.25.2011
The members of the Writers Guild of America, East see first-hand what happens when too few entities control too much of what the American public watches and listens to, both in the entertainment realm and in news.
Zack Isaacs | Posted 05.25.2011
It is true that violence is rampant in predominantly African-American neighborhoods, but the actions of a few should not lead to unfair stereotypes of the majority.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011
PBS's new program Need to Know positions itself as an antidote to the poisonous advocacy of cable news. What it succumbs to instead is what makes mainstream news so impotent.
Tracy Rosenberg | Posted 06.06.2011
The nation's more than 3,000 public access centers are on the verge of extinction. Yours may go next week, next month or next year, but their days are numbered.
HuffingtonPost.com | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011
The George W. Bush Institute -- the "action- oriented think tank" that is part of Bush's Presidential Center -- will co-produce a public television sh...
Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011
The first thing you do in a war is control and take out your enemy's communication system. Our news has been taken over by entertainment, propaganda and massive corporations. We need to to take back the media.
Aaron Harber | Posted 05.25.2011
It is fascinating to watch the fracturing of the Republican Party as some leaders attack Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a "racist" while others try to focus on her judicial record.
Thomas Stern | Posted 05.25.2011
Can I honestly say that by virtue of my station in life that I am inherently contributing more to civilization than a woman in a spangly tutu dancing in front of blue screen projections of herself dancing in a spangly tutu?
Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 05.25.2011
Public broadcasting officials vowed Monday to fight drastic cuts President Bush is seeking to make to federal financing for public television and radi...
Bill Moyers | Posted 04.23.2012