Bob CollinsWhat’s going on here? First, Sesame Street jettisons PBS. And now the Harlem Globetrotters are cutting ties with the Washington Generals. ESPN reports the Globetrotters are ending their relationship with the Generals, their nightly opponents in their act. That’s 63 years of tradition gone right there. “I don’t know exactly how many times we lost, Read more →
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They don’t make newspaper people like Marilyn Hagerty anymore. The Grand Forks, N.D., columnist knows how to tell the story of the soul of the communities she covers. Read more →
A day after PBS announced it would trim Sesame Street to a half hour, Sesame Workshop and HBO delivered a bombshell today — Sesame Street will move to HBO. Read more →
The end is near: The hour-long version of Sesame Street will soon be no more on PBS. Read more →
If the obituary scandal out of Richmond isn’t a sign of the times, I really don’t know what is. Read more →
We must be getting somewhere in our continuing focus on obituaries that reveal a truer life than who someone worked for because multiple people have sent me Dorothy McElhaney’s final tribute today. Read more →
Politico Media’s Capital New York has exposed a bit of the tension between podcasters and broadcasters in the public radio realm, including a brewing battle of the generations. Read more →
Judging by the consistently fawning coverage of Prince in the local media, it’s against some sort of law to point out that he can be rather a fool from time to time.
This is one of those times.
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We cannot let the week pass without a tip of the blogger hat to Fred de Sam Lazaro, who makes Minnesotans who watch PBS NewsHour a little more proud each time one of his reports airs.
He is marking 40 years since coming to America and runs the Under-told Stories unit under a funding deal with St. Mary’s in Winona. Read more →
Data show Minneapolis-St. Paul isn’t much for news on the radio. Sports is another story, however.
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It’s all over but the last moment of Zen for fans of Jon Stewart, who hosts his last Daily Show tonight.
Even Arby’s, constantly lampooned by Stewart, claims to be sorry to see him go. Read more →
This day is just slow enough that it might make the nightly news. Read more →
Frankly, we haven’t been getting much material from the ‘Department of People Are Pretty Great’ lately, but it made up for it today with this nugget. Read more →
NPR’s Linda Holmes, who writes the Monkey See blog on popular culture, has found her way — sort of — into the percolating podcast v. radio debate with her latest post about a TV show. Read more →
In his final days as host of the Daily Show, Jon Stewart’s reputation as the Walter Cronkite of a younger generation is getting new review.
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