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06 Jun 2011 20:33

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U.S.: Chris Christie wants to outsource New Jersey’s public broadcasting

  • We need to have robust New Jersey public broadcasting, but we need to have it in a way that is not continuing to cost the taxpayers and can be perceived as truly independent from state government.
  • New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie • Describing his plan to have WNET take over public television coverage in New Jersey, as well as to offer up public radio coverage to stations in Pennsylvania and New York. A deal’s already in place. The decision is controversial to say the least — some New Jersey residents are concerned about losing local programming as a result of the plan, and over 100 people will lose their jobs — though they have the opportunity to reapply for similar jobs with WNET. Though officials reassure that donaations raised for public broadcasting “will stay in New Jersey,” this is kind of a crap move if you ask us. These services cost the state relatively little and their benefits are pretty high. And the state wouldn’t be able to get away with this move at all if they weren’t relatively small and adjacent to states with large public broadcasters already. source

02 Jun 2011 21:25

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U.S.: Sony hacked yet again, or LulzSec’s continually-growing rep

  • Not this $@(& again. Somehow, Sony managed to get itself hacked by another group of hackers who want to cause some drama and security issues for them, proving a couple of things: First, screwing with white-hat hackers, as Sony did, is a terrible idea, and they’ve been learning that lesson repeatedly for a solid month or two. Second, Lulzsec appears to be obsessed with drawing as much attention as humanly possible. In a month, they’ve hacked Fox, PBS, Sony and the contestant list to the upcoming “X Factor” show. Seriously? In it for the “Lulz”? These attacks are way too malicious and dangerous for something so innocuous. source

30 May 2011 15:13

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Politics: Hackers attack PBS over WikiLeaks documentary

  • WikiSecrets The title of a PBS Frontline documentary, which examines the massive cache of classified materials exposed by WikiLeaks, as well as the detained Bradley Manning. It’s been viewed as unfavorable to the organization.
  • Tupac lives! The fraud story the folks at PBS found splashed on their website, after hackers sympathetic to WikiLeaks and Manning attacked the site. As it turns out, he’s been living with Biggie in a house in New Zealand all this time! source

12 May 2011 11:06

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Culture: Public television icon Jim Lehrer’s leaving his anchor post

The guy’s been the anchor or co-anchor of a program like “Newshour” for 36 years. He’ll still remain on the show, but will mostly stay behind-the-scenes. Big ups, man. source

28 Aug 2009 16:51

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