“Will be ready on couch with a bag of pork rinds ready in honor of the prophet.”
I just put a pork shoulder on the smoker. Should be ready just in time for this program.
A transcript of a get-together as CPB was beginning to hatch the “America at the Crossroads” series. 23 pages of Q & A, here is the first 2 paragraphs....
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
CHICAGO EVENT
MODERATOR:
MICHAEL PACK
MAY 11, 2004
MICHAEL PACK: Thank you all for coming. I’m Michael Pack, senior VP for Television Programming at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And I’ve come to talk to you about our new initiative, America at a Crossroads. I’ve brought Jim Denton, who is a consultant for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and sort of the mastermind of the structure and running of the initiative, and two guests who will speak later. I will give you a little background, then ask our speakers to address some of the issues, and finally take questions from the audience, either questions for me and questions for the panelists.
When I came to CPB a little over a year ago, the board and the leadership gave me a directive to come up with strategic initiatives in the areas of public affairs and education. So with my team, I traveled around the country. We visited PBS stations, including TTW, and experts in various places. We quickly decided that in the public affairs realm, the big issues facing America were those brought about by September 11th. Where is America headed with the war on terror? What is radical Islam? What about the PATRIOT Act and civil liberties? What kind of role should we have in the world? How is our relationship with Europe changing?
http://www.cpb.org/grants/crossroads/chicago_transcript.pdf