Feeling slightly smug, I watch Downton Abbey

Feeling slightly smug, I watch Downton Abbey Oh for charming-living sake, they are watching Downton Abbey at the MOMA no less. I am addicted to the PBS show. The stories and characters twist and turn navigating...

What Does Ken Burns Want for Christmas?

This two-minute mockumentary may have the answer. It was produced by BAMPA -- the Barely Any Motion Picture Association. And features slow pans and zooms of old photos of not so famous people.

Tina Fey Mark Twain Awards Speech: PBS Cuts Sarah Palin Remarks

PBS Cuts And Edits Out Biting Remarks By Tina Fey About Sarah Palin, During Mark Twain Awards And Prize Speech PBS is defending its decision to edit comedian Tina Fey's speech during the Mark Twain Awards on the...

Virtual Interview with PBS 'Digital Nation' host Douglas Rushkoff

PBS Frontline - Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier Correspondent Interviewed in Virtual World Metanomics is a talk show filmed in the virtual world of Second Life. The first show of their spring season...

This Emotional Life Premiers On PBS As Post-Holiday Blues Set In

This Emotional Life, a new show focusing on the science behind happiness, is premiering on the PBS network tonight. Produced by the creators of the famous NOVA programming, this three-part series is supposed to...

JUSTICE FOR SALE vs. DEEP US GOVERNMENT & TURKISH CONNECTIONS

THE STORY...   BEHIND THE STORY... I am not Journalist, I am a victim of theft. I am here by necessity, fighting forces much larger than us. Before we were aware of what Sibel Edmonds was doing... We have been...

THE LARGEST ESPIONAGE, BRIBERY & POLITICAL SCANDAL IN US HISTORY

          A long tale of  massive  corruption that has been hidden throughout the  eight years of the  Bush administration is finally surfacing.    After...

Reading Rainbow: LeVar Burton Ends 26-Year Run on Air

Reading Rainbow, the third-longest running children's show in PBS history, is ending its 26-year run on air this Friday, August 28, 2009. Host LeVar Burton, of Kunta Kinte and Star Trek: The Next Generation fame, has been hosting the 12-time Emmy winning series since its...

President Obama Whacks Beehive While Defending Professor Gates

A couple of days ago, President Barack Obama whacked a beehive of public opinion on which Black and white voters often disagree by twenty points or more: the degree to which skin color of suspects determines the behavior of police in the United Staes of America.  As I...

PBS Launches New Video Portal for Public Broadcasting

PBS took a bite out of Hulu's playbook on Wednesday when the American Public Broadcasting Service debuted its new video portal site, which features an extensive catalogue of video clips and streamed, full episodes of...

Videos Expose Palestinian ‘Pallywood’ Propaganda

Two videos published on YouTube yesterday will see little, if any, airtime on major news networks or cable news operations in the West.  Why?  Because they expose the “Pallywoood” propaganda efforts...

"Inheritance" Documentary Film Tells the Story of Nazi's Daughter

Imagine watching Schindler's List and knowing the sadistic Nazi camp commandant played by Ralph Fiennes was your father. Inheritance is the story of Monika Hertwig, the daughter of mass murderer Amon Goeth....

FBI Prevents Agents from Telling 'Truth' About 9/11 on PBS

The FBI is preventing two agents from going public with what they know about the CIA's withholding of information from the FBI about alleged 9/11 hijackers alMidhar and alHazmi that might have prevented the attacks.See also The Complete 9/11 Timeline"The FBI has blocked two...

Reagan, Russia and a giant bear believed to embody the power of God

How fitting, that in this election season with multiple quotes from the great communicator floating around like lobbyists at a Washington park picnic that I would run in to the PBS production of The Presidents...

Video Story: 1st Debate Reaction from indieTV

It seemed to me that McCain was to angry, hunch over, and now he has a new YouTube video!

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