So for my latest @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column, on the inauguration's anniversary, I wanted to highlight the Great Society gem that was the CPB, & how its origins & early history remind us of how vital public broadcasting remains. 🗃️

www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/01/cons...

My take is that government has so well coordinated attacks on the public media infrastructure from all sides, that the situation must be considered as a social engineering extension of Project 2025.

Spectacular

Looked into it and I think it’s the old RCA building.

Thank you!

If you're a film and media scholar, or work around the discipline, now is the time to research and write about "noncommercial" media industries and the role of media in democracy. It's not enough to merely describe successful business models anymore.

Seems like a good time to talk about the purpose of public media with students, and you really can't find a more important figure in the US media system than Bill to talk about where it all came from and why it's important.

Imperfect thinker but quite astute about the mechanisms of the reproduction of ideology.

Read slow, read a lot, talk about flaws in argumentation, and quite often the person, but know what the arguments were.

You don’t have to like the piece or candidate, that’s why it’s an editorial

Mandy was great in Princess Bride