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By DAVID KISH | March 7, 2007

Broadway's Best at Pops
This DVD represents some of the best of public broadcasting and a bit of the worst.
Why ‘fairness’ fails
Anyone who has ever sampled the auditory sewer that is right-wing talk radio can understand the impulse to reinstate the so-called “fairness doctrine.”
Political art
Tucked inside President Bush’s stinker of a 2009 budget are a series of proposals that would shamefully cut funding for the arts.
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Broadway's Best at Pops
This DVD represents some of the best of public broadcasting and a bit of the worst.
Why ‘fairness’ fails
Anyone who has ever sampled the auditory sewer that is right-wing talk radio can understand the impulse to reinstate the so-called “fairness doctrine.”
Political art
Tucked inside President Bush’s stinker of a 2009 budget are a series of proposals that would shamefully cut funding for the arts.
Where’s the Outrage? Pt. 1
As the Ford “restructuring” announcement was unfolding this week, I read the Associated Press stories on the Internet, digested the New York Times ’ substantial package, viewed PBS’ long discussion on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and listened dutifully to National Public Radio’s programming, including bits of On Point , Tom Ashbrook’s always-remarkable morning program.
Portland scene report: November 28, 2008
The results of the WePushButtons Awards came in just a tad too late to get them in the last paper, so here's a quick recap of who took home what last Saturday at SPACE Gallery.
Seeing isn’t believing
Public radio has a number of gritty survival skills. One of these is the ability to fly under the pop-culture radar like an ambiguously cool former classmate.
Shut up and play
I’ve been fired for saying stuff like this.
Not so great
Way back in 1977, PBS gave us a Nutcracker with a difference: Mikhail Baryshnikov as an electrifying Nutcracker/Cavalier and willowy Gelsey Kirkland as an older-than-usual Clara, as the Sugar Plum Fairy.
Caricature vs. character
Michael Chandler’s documentary, Knee Deep is less a whodunit than a who-wouldn’t-have-done-it.
WBUR slashes arts coverage
WBUR, the Boston-based, Boston University-owned NPR radio affiliate, will no longer carry arts reviews, the station’s long-time critic and editor Bill Marx said Thursday.
Air apparent
With any institution in flux, it’s easier to pinpoint when things fell apart than when they were put back together.
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