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The Frontline of Hasbara is on PBS
By Andrew Stewart | CounterPunch | January 8, 2016 On January 5, 2015, PBS aired a new Frontline documentary NETANYAHU AT WAR, a profile of the troubled relationship between the Israeli Prime Minister and President Obama. It is now available on the PBS website in some markets and will perhaps be on other platforms such […]
Tomorrow night brings, at last, the "Better Call Saul" premiere, and another episode of "Grantchester"
Bob Odenkirk talks to Jimmy Kimmel about Better Call Saul, and shows him some, er, surprising clipsJimmy tells Bob he's really enjoyed the two episodes he was given to watch. Bob tells Jimmy he's only seen one -- but hopes the second one turned out well.
For Super Sunday, one last game note and one last alternative-programming suggestion
Have you been watching The Great British Baking Show on PBS? Today Episode 5, "Pies and Tarts," airs (or aired) in most locations.by KenOkay, Bob, makes senseThis afternoon about I happened, totally inadvertently, to land on NBC's pregame coverage. It was still about four hours before game time, so that would put it at about our 13 of the pregame festivities.
Voices From The Ghosts of Vietnam Are Being Heard Again: Which Should We Listen To?
By Danny Schechter | teleSUR | December 15, 2014 It’s been nearly 40 years since what the American media called “The Fall of Saigon” and the Vietnamese referred to as the Liberation. I saw it then as the Fall of Washington. The ghosts of Vietnam are back, thanks to two filmmakers with very different takes. […]
NPR covers for David Brooks
By Alison Weir | October 10, 2014 Not surprisingly, NPR’s ombudsman goes with the flow that will neither interfere with his current employment nor injure his future prospects in American journalism. Following is an email to me from the Office of the Ombudsman, and my response to NPR: Dear Alison, Thank you for contacting the […]
U.S. Human Radiation Experiments Covered up by Public Broadcasting
The bomb will not start a chain reaction in the water, converting it all to gas and letting all the ships on all the oceans drop down to the bottom. It will not blow out the bottom of the sea and let all the water run down the hole. It will not destroy gravity. I am not an atomic playboy.
– Vice Admiral William P. Blandy, Bikini bomb test commander, July 25, 1946
How happy for the NFL that ESPN has decided -- entirely of its own free will -- not to pile onto the league's violence problem
HuffPost reproduced this series of tweets from Sports Business Journal's John Ourand in which both the NFL and ESPN proclaim their innocence of collusion in ESPN's sudden withdrawal from collaboration with PBS's Frontline investigation into the NFL head-injury mess.by KenI suppose it's possible to believe
Effort afoot at public television to deep-six hard-hitting “Nuclear Savage” documentary?
By Andrew W. Griffin | Red Dirt Report | May 19, 2013
OKLAHOMA CITY – A new documentary film, Nuclear Savage, by documentary filmmaker Adam Jonas Horowitz, should have been shown on PBS this month, but may be running into resistance by persons unknown at the publicly-funded U.S.-based public-television network that includes World Channel content.