GOP vs. NPR

Republican lawmakers in the House want to pull all funding for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, which provides grants to NPR and PBS stations and serves as seed money for stations to raise money from listeners. This isn't the first time the GOP has gone after public broadcasting; this latest effort was spurred by the firing of NPR analyst Juan Williams over comments he made on Fox News.

On today's "To The Point," a discussion about what would happen if public broadcasting the loses the money, and a debate over whether the networks offer a valuable services, or biased news. Guests are Paul Farhi of the Washington Post; Laura Walker, president of New York Public Radio; Laurence Jarvik, author of "PBS: Behind the Screen"; James Rainey, media columnist at the Los Angeles Times, and Adam Thierer of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. A link to the program, which was produced by Katie Cooper, is here.

Four today

1. We are what we measure. CJR

2. Freakonomics is headed for radio. WNYC

3. The law and online aggregation. Nieman Journalism Lab

4. LA>FWD, a collaboration by Radio Bilingue and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is scheduled to launch Sept. 16. LA Observed

WNYC gets back "To The Point

More details on the return of "To The Point" to WNYC in New York City. The show will broadcast Monday through Friday starting at 10 p.m. The show will make its debut on Friday, Oct. 9.

TTP in NYC

"To The Point" will return to the New York City airwaves in the next week or so - details are still a bit sketchy. WNYC has opened up an evening slot on its AM 820 station for the show. The station dropped TTP last year to make room for a home-grown program.

(Full disclosure: I'm a producer for TTP and glad/relieved to be back on in New York.)

No TTP in the NYC

Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice writes to protest WNYC's recent decision to drop "To The Point" from its AM station.

(My conflicts here are clear, but I'll mention them anyway: I'm one of seven producers for TTP, and therefore keenly interested in getting back on the air in New York City, and I produced the show on Zimbabwe that Hentoff makes reference to.)