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My Conversation with Bill Moyers

Charlie Rose | Posted May 9, 2008 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, Bill Moyers, Charlie Rose, Chicago, Election, Lyndon, Pbs, Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

I recently interviewed my long time friend and mentor, Bill Moyers, who, after serving as a member of the Lyndon Johnson administration, became one of the most respected journalists on American television. He has spent his life engaging with central issues of American democracy. We talked about whether Barack Obama...

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On Leaving The Tom Joyner Show

Tavis Smiley | Posted April 15, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Announcement, Apology, Bet, Friendship, Npr, Pbs, Pri, Public Radio, Radio, Smiley Books, Tavis Smiley Projects, Tavis Smiley Quits Tom Joyner, Tavis Smiley Tom Joyner, Tom Joyner

The following is a transcript of my commentary from the Tom Joyner Morning Show from earlier today:

There is no way to put into words the love and respect that I have for Tom Joyner or the love affair that I've had with Tom Joyner Morning Show listeners for...

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PBS' Iraq Documentary Sets Online Viewership Record

New York Times | Elizabeth Jensen | April 7, 2008 08:17 AM

Read More: Bush's War, Pbs, PBS Bush's War, PBS Frontline

Executives at "Frontline" do not yet know how many people watched their recent four-and-a-half hour documentary, "Bush's War," because of PBS's complicated Nielsen ratings. Online, however, "Bush's War," which was produced for the fifth anniversary of the United States' invasion...

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Jon Friedman: Tavis Smiley Is "A Populist Charlie Rose"

MarketWatch | Jon Friedman | March 24, 2008 08:17 AM

Read More: Charlie Rose, Pbs, Tavis Smiley

One of the mysteries of television is why PBS' Tavis Smiley continues to fly below the radar. He has an easy charm and a keen curiosity, and deserves to be better known. Smiley follows Charlie Rose's respected talk show, which...

How Do I Tell Frank Mr. Rogers Is Dead?

Linda Keenan | Posted March 20, 2008 | Living

Read More: Caillou, Children's Programming, Fred Rogers, Fred Rogers' Birthday, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, Pbs, Studs Terkel

The only grandpa my 3-year-old will ever know and see routinely is a dead guy. He appears in my bedroom each morning, as Frank bounds up into my bed, literally pries my eyes open, and lunges for the remote. And there he is, our glorious ghost. To Frank, he is...

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Bush bashes PBS (again), and The New York Times helps

Eric Boehlert | Posted March 19, 2008 | Media

Read More: Bill Moyers, Breaking Media News, Bush, Charles McGrath, Cnn, Cpb, Fox News, Frontline, Msnbc, New York Times, New York Times NPR., Newshour, Now, Npr, Pbs, Rick Karr, Situation Room

I understand why Bush takes cheap shots at PBS. But what's The New York Times' excuse?

The Bush administration has been attacking PBS' funding for years, and in 2005 actually helped plot a public -- and bogus -- campaign to rid public broadcasting of its alleged liberal bias. Now...

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Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

Mark Klempner | Posted February 15, 2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Clearwater, Documentaries, Folk Music, Music, Pbs, Pete Seeger, Pete Seeger: The Power Of Song

As Pete Seeger rides out his eighties with a number of awards and musical tributes, a new documentary entitled Pete Seeger: The Power of Song attempts to capture his monumental life on film. Though not yet in full theatrical release, just watching the online trailer excited me as...

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Don't Miss "American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver"

Lanny Davis | Posted January 18, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Pbs, Robert Sargent Shriver

Robert Sargent Shriver is a great man: a great friend, a great husband, father, and patriot. His historic legacy is far-reaching; the lives he touched and made for the better are countless.

On Monday night, January 21 - appropriately, Martin Luther King Day - PBS will be broadcasting a movie...

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Channeling Suze Orman

Norman Solomon | Posted December 27, 2007 | Media

Read More: Cnbc, Greed, Pbs, Suze Orman, Wealth

I was near the deadline for a column when I glanced at a TV screen. "The Suze Orman Show," airing on CNBC at prime time, exerted a powerful force in my hotel room. And the fate of this column was sealed.

Orman made a big splash many years...

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Bill Clinton Is Right About the Campaign Coverage

Eric Boehlert | Posted December 19, 2007 | Media

I don't think 'horserace' accurately describes the type of vacuous campaign coverage that has sprung from this cycle. What we're seeing flourish this time on the trail is something else entirely. It's coverage that's often saddled with inane trivia about tactics and delivered with a faux breathlessness, in a way...

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Bill Clinton: Hillary's Experience Compared To Obama's, 'It's Not Even Close'

Editor and Publisher | Greg Mitchell | December 15, 2007 01:59 PM

Read More: Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton Interview, Bill Clinton Interview Charlie Rose, Breaking Politics News, Charlie Rose, Hillary Clinton, Pbs

In a surprisingly frank interview with Charlie Rose on his PBS show late Friday night, former President Bill Clinton declared that his wife was not only far better prepared to be president than her chief rival Sen. Barack Obama --...

American Voters Speak on Job Skills: Oh, Please, Just Shut Up

Gerald Bracey | Posted November 28, 2007 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election, American Electorate, American Voters, Education, George W. Bush, Nea, Partnership For 21st Century Skills, Pbs

On November 3, 2004, 59,054,087 Americans cast their presidential votes for George W. Bush. On November 4, 2004, the front page of the London Daily Mirror showed a picture of a smirking George W. Bush and asked, "How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?" Three years later, surveying the rubble...

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"By the People" Recap: a Little Summary, and I Almost Lose It

Craig Newmark | Posted November 14, 2007 | Politics

Read More: Colonial Williamsburg, Pbs, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer

The deal is The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, a PBS show, organized a kind of citizens' assembly in Colonial Williamsburg.

They did a really good job getting a lot of different kinds of people, folks I would never have the chance to meet and talk things over....

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A Demand For a Presidential Debate on Science

Matthew Chapman | Posted November 13, 2007 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election, Candidates Evolution, Dover, Dover Evolution, Dover Intelligent Design, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Mike Huckabee, Nova, Pbs, PBS Documentaries, Science, Tom Tancredo

Tonight on PBS, Nova is presenting a documentary about Kitzmiller v. Dover, the evolution versus intelligent design trial that took place in the fall of 2005. It is called "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design On Trial." I know the subject well, having written extensively about it, and the title is...

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Good Grief! Celebrating Peanuts

Michael Giltz | Posted October 29, 2007 | Entertainment

Read More: American Masters, Books, Charles Schulz, Charlie Brown, Comic Strips, Doonesbury, Gary Larson, Hal Hartley, Pbs, Peanuts, The Far Side, Tv, Walter Cronkite

Tonight on PBS's American Masters, they take a close look at the life of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. Linked to the new biography by David Michaelis, it focuses on the parallels between Schulz's real life and the strip, as well as the very real melancholy Schulz dealt with...

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Blackwater Chief Concedes It Is "Possible" Guards Made A Mistake

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | October 13, 2007 08:29 PM

Read More: Baghdad, Blackwater USA, Charlie Rose, Erik Prince, Iraq, Iraq War, Pbs, Private Contractors, Private Security, Private Security Contractors

In an interview with Charlie Rose to air Monday on PBS, Blackwater USA chief Erik Prince continues to defend his security guards, and indeed argues that they could have been useful in situations like the Rwandan genocide in 1994, or...

PBS Hires Diversity Director

Free Press | October 4, 2007 06:05 PM

Read More: Diversity Inititives, Haydee Rodriguez, Paula Kerger, Pbs

PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger announced today that Haydee M. Rodriguez has been appointed Director, PBS Diversity Initiative. Ms. Rodriguez joins the staff of PBS from the Governor's Commission on Hispanic Affairs, Maryland, where she serves as Executive Director....

Why Top GOP Candidates Really Said No to Black College Debate

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted September 28, 2007 | Politics

Read More: Black College Debate, Fred Thompson, Gop, John McCain, Minority Issues, Mitt Romney, Morgan State Debate, Morgan State University, Pbs, Republican Presidential Contenders, Rudy Giuliani

It was galling to hear the top gun Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson weasel out of the Republican presidential debate scheduled for September 27 at historically black Morgan State University with the well-worn ploy of a scheduling conflict. It probably wasn't...

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Essay Question: The War vs. George W. Bush's War. Compare and Contrast (50 points).

Peter Smith | Posted September 27, 2007 | Politics

Read More: Documentaries, Ken Burns, Ken Burns The War, Ken Burns' WWII Documentary, Pbs, PBS Documentaries, The War PBS

Have you been following Ken Burns' The War on PBS? Have you been thinking about Iraq as you do?

The War is Burns' epic new documentary on America, its people, and the effort the country put into winning World War Two. It is all but impossible not...

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PBS Cleans Up At News Emmys

Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | September 25, 2007 09:54 AM

Read More: Award Shows, Los Angeles Times, News Emmys, Pbs, Ted Koppel

PBS dominated the field Monday during the 28th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, racking up 10 wins for a collection of unflinching programs on varied topics, including the sex-slave trade, scientific research on chimpanzees, and the war in Iraq....

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