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The president’s new budget would slash funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by 25 percent. CPB is the major financial backer of PBS, and a cut of this size would be certain to cripple the public network’s ability to provide the high-quality television programming it is known for.
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During a tense interview with NPR, Karl Rove defended his claim that the GOP will hold on to both houses of Congress and accused host Robert Siegel of bias. (h/t: Crooks and Liars)
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National Public Radio interviews Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer and former White House advisor Ron Christie on the significance of the declassified National Intelligence Estimate. (Listen)
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In case you missed them, here are some choice picks from the week in radio.
Posted on Jul 30, 2006
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NPR looks at how “mutantism” in the movie “X-Men 3: The Last Stand” functions as a stand-in for all kinds of real-life abnormalities: like homosexuality, dwarfism and deafness, and how some people, like the X-Men, feel that abnormalities don’t need to be “cured.”
Posted on May 31, 2006
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The American Journalism Review chronicles the perilous conditions under which NPR reporter Deborah Amos and others like her work to get the hardest stories in Iraq—those found outside the Green Zone.
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 From westernjustice.org
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“It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings,” former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor told a Georgetown audience, according to an NPR report. (Hat tip: Huff Po)
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The Los Angeles Times’ Kenneth Turan says “Munich” is a movie that demands to be seen as much for its place in the world as for whether it succeeds. He calls it “... the most questioning, provocative film [Spielberg’s] ever made.”
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