Senior Fellow Morley Winograd and his co-author, Mike Hais, were quoted in a recent article in Forbes, "Why America's Young And Restless Will Abandon Cities For Suburbs." Winograd and Hais state that the reason more Millennials are abandoning the urban for the suburban lifestyle is due to the rising housing costs of owning property in cities…….Continue Reading Winograd in Forbes – Millennial migration to 'burbs
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The Money Melodrama in Washington
Stating the obvious: Politicians know politics; that's their business. Business is not their business, and any discussion about American presidents and economics has to begin with this discouraging word: American politicians, with a very small number of exceptions, don't know anything about economics. In Washington, during the deficit debates for the past few weeks, politicians are guessing–as I think most economists and pundits are–and they seize on almost any deficit idea that sounds good at the time. It has been ever thus: A mainstream American conservative, Richard Nixon, blurts out that we are all Keynesians now, and a mainstream American……Continue Reading The Money Melodrama in Washington
Media executives, policymakers and scholars assess public media’s future
Public broadcasting executives, journalists, policymakers, and others met in USC's Washington, DC office on Monday, July 25 to discuss growing threats to public broadcasting stations across the US. The program featured opening remarks by Geoffrey Cowan, director of the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy and was organized by Adam Clayton Powell III, CCLP's senior fellow who has served in top positions at several commercial and public news organizations. USC Annenberg's Dean Ernest J. Wilson III also participated in the forum. Tom Thomas, Co-CEO of Station Resource Group, observed that while public broadcasters have always had aspirations that exceeded available……Continue Reading Media executives, policymakers and scholars assess public media’s future
Hollihan in NYT – The Closer
The New York Times quoted Senior Fellow Thomas Hollihan about the political impact of City Council President Eric Garcetti playing a fictional mayor on the TV series "The Closer."……Continue Reading Hollihan in NYT – The Closer
PBS loses a 4th station; public television local news commitment questioned
WASHINGTON — The Public Broadcasting System has been abandoned by a fourth station, WIPR-TV in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As previously reported, KCET-TV in Los Angeles dropped its PBS programming in January of this year. Two public television stations in Florida followed suit in early July. WIPR canceled its PBS affiliation after an unsuccessful year-long negotiation over the amount the station would pay for programming, according to an article in Current magazine. That was exactly the same pattern as in Los Angeles, according to KCET President and General Manager Al Jerome in an interview late last week with CCLP. In……Continue Reading PBS loses a 4th station; public television local news commitment questioned
Fund cuts for public television lead to mergers; is there life after PBS?
WASHINGTON – Coping with reduced funding by state governments and other sources, public television stations are pursuing diverse options ranging from mergers and consolidation to dropping PBS network programs. As reported in early July, funding cuts led to the demise of the New Jersey Network of PBS stations, which were merged into New York's WNET. The station had earlier acquired WLIW on Long Island, so currently, WNET controls PBS programming on stations well to the east and south of New York City. New York is not unique: San Francisco's public television station, KQED, acquired KTEH, serving San Jose and the……Continue Reading Fund cuts for public television lead to mergers; is there life after PBS?
Over There With George M. Cohan
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif.–This prosperous enclave on the cliff overlooking Santa Monica Bay has many virtues, and one of the big ones is a great hometown Fourth of July parade. For more than three hours, folks sit on the curbs or on lawn chairs and watch America go by. Bands and Boy Scouts, firemen and bagpipers, veterans from half a dozen wars, politicians, beginning with the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, and more flags than you can count, most of them probably made in China. There was even a young man walking the streets passing out "Muslims for Peace" brochures…….Continue Reading Over There With George M. Cohan
Suro in Maynard – Immigration
Faculty Fellow Roberto Suro was featured in an article on the Maynard Institute website. Speaking with USC's Dowell Myers, Suro said a battle between the federal government and the states over who would lead in enforcing immigration laws in the workplace had "finally been settled" by courts in favor of the states. The conversation in which Suro was taking part was about forging a new social contract between the aging Baby Boomer generation and immigrants to the US…….Continue Reading Suro in Maynard – Immigration
Anawalt in Nieman – Engine 28
The Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard published an article on their website on Engine28, featuring Faculy Fellow Sasha Anawalt. Named for the converted firehouse where the journalists set up shop, Engine28 is the product of an NEA-sponsored fellowship program overseen by Anawalt…….Continue Reading Anawalt in Nieman – Engine 28
Seib in Christian – Social Media & ME
"From China to Yemen to Tunisia to Egypt, social media has given ordinary citizens extraordinary ways to organize themselves and be heard," said Faculty Fellow Philip Seib in article in The Christian Post. "This has destabilized 'politics as usual' bringing volatility to an already unstable world."……Continue Reading Seib in Christian – Social Media & ME