Feb 3, 2006
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on War News Radio, the show about the Iraq War produced by students at Swarthmore College. "Getting in touch with Iraqis has not been the insurmountable challenge it seemed to be at the start," a student says. "You run into more brick walls trying to get someone in the U.S. military to talk to you." (Another story from the AP.)
A $1.35 million CPB grant will fund a project by pubTV stations in upstate New York to link via fiber optic cable, allowing them to share programming without relying on the satellite system. "We've got our own high-speed network between stations now. Geography is down to zero," Robert Daino, president of WCNY in Syracuse, told the Associated Press (via Newsday).