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Digital Television Delay

Stephanie Vaughn Hapke | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media

I'm sorry, but if people have not heeded the warnings by now, they either do not watch enough TV for this to be an issue, or they just don't care.

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"Avec Eric": Eric Ripert To Star In PBS Show

Hollywood Reporter | James Hibberd | Posted 03.07.2009 | Media

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Eric Ripert, the internationally recognized chef of Le Bernardin restaurant in New York and frequent guest judge on Bravo's "Top Chef," will star for ...

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Counting our Blessings...

Charlie Cray | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Pbs, PBS Frontline, Frontline, Springfield, Roe v. Wade, Obama Springfield, Roe vs Wade, Politics News

As a progressive, I expect to be frustrated by Obama's tilt on issues. But if there's one thing that he seems destined to do is unite the country in ways we haven't seen for a long time.

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Not Just Kid Stuff: From Kidz Bop to The Fuzzy Stones

Mike Ragogna | Posted 01.29.2009 | Entertainment

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When did children's music get so awful? It wasn't always as painful to listen to. Some historic recordings, though not exactly classified as "children's," have been cherished forever.

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Two Obsessions, One Dream -- Heidi 4 Paws

Holly Goldberg Sloan | Posted 01.17.2009 | Entertainment

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So what happens when you take two obsessions and you combine them into one dream? You get a live-action talking dog movie for kids and a bigger mortgage on your house.

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Post-Election: Call it Decompression

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

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He did the strangest thing last night: He turned the TV off. There he was, still in the early part of the evening, with another hour or two of pol...

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Dear President-Elect Obama, Could We Please Have a Ministry of Culture like Every Other Country in the World?

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bo Derek, Pbs, Tv Series, Npr, Happy Meals, Opera, Research and Development, NYU Film School, Ministry of Culture, Film, Nea, Art Therapy, Kennedy Center, HuffPost Election Reaction, Entertainament, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Politics News

We need to invest in multi-dimensional human beings. We need to show that the country cares about culture.

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Media Change We Can Believe In

Rory O'Connor | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media

The Bush Administration's default approach toward journalists has been to use them when necessary and bypass them when not.

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Boone Pickens Caught in Several More Lies on Frontline

Josh Nelson | Posted 11.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Pbs, T. Boone Pickens, Energy Independence, Politics, Heat, Natural Gas, Pickens Plan, Foreign Oil, Green, Global Warming, Energy, Boone Pickens, Climate Change, Green News

It is starting to look like Pickens has a bad habit of telling a few whoppers in every public appearance. Lie #1: Democratic candidates don't know how reducing CO2 emissions by 60-80% is possible.

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"Video Your Vote" On PBS And YouTube

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

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if you spot (and record on video) something unusual at your polling place, you will have an easy way of uploading it to a place where journalists will have immediate access.

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PBS Sidelines Torture Documentary Until After New President's Inauguration

New York Times | Elizabeth Jensen | Posted 11.16.2008 | Media

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"Torturing Democracy," a documentary examining the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies, will be shown on WNET in New York on Th...

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Did PBS Bury An Expose On Torture?

The Daily Beast | Scott Horton | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media

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This spring, PBS's distinguished Frontline series aired a mildly critical account of the lead-up to the Iraq War entitled "Bush's War." As the airing ...

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Battle For The West: Fighting For Latino Voters

Ryan Rivera | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Polls, Pbs, Latino Vote, Barack Obama, Voter Registration, John McCain, New Mexico, Colorado, Acorn, Home News

A cutout of Barack Obama at a Mexican Independence Day celebration in Denver last month (Getty Images) New Mexico took center stage over the weeken...

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Martin Savidge's "Worldfocus" Replaces "BBC World News" On Some PBS Stations

New York Times | Elizabeth Jensen | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

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For 10 years, the BBC has largely had to itself the American market for television news that is not United States-centric, thanks to its distribution ...

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Gwen Ifill -- Not Tough Enough

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pbs, Edward Murrow, Msnbc, John McCain, Hillary Clinton Media Bias, Katie Couric Palin Interview, The Breakthrough: Politics in the Age of Obama, Joe Biden, Chris Matthews, Journalism, Barack Obama, Ifill Moderator, Vice Presidential Debate, Gwen Ifill Debate, Gwen Ifill, Sarah Palin, 2008 Vice Presidential Debate, Media Bias, Politics News

Perhaps Ifill's soft questioning and at times repetitive questions at the beginning and end of the debate was her way to prove to conservatives she was not playing favorites.

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Picking Gwen Ifill: McCain's Latest Stunt?

Chris Goldberg | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pbs, Pro Obama, Vice Presidential Debate, The Breakthrough Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, Sarah Palin, Gwen Ifill, Woman, Fox News, Journalist, Joe Biden, Right Wingers, African American, Politics News

Maybe John McCain is a lot savvier at picking a debate moderator than he is at picking a running mate.

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The Truth Behind the NOW on PBS "Palin Poll"

Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 10.24.2008 | Media

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Sometimes, creating web content is like tossing lit matches at a gasoline station. This poll reached the attention of many bloggers and passionate political communities on the left and on the right.

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PBS Dominates News & Documentary Emmys

Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 10.24.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK -- Television news reports about the war in Iraq and its repercussions took top honors Monday night at the 29th annual News and Documentary E...

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Tavis Smiley Hits 1,000 Episode Milestone, Learns From Diane Sawyer, Bob Costas, And Charlie Rose

Variety | Malina Saval | Posted 10.18.2008 | Media

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PBS talkshow host Tavis Smiley believes that it's his ability to ease guests -- many of them reclusive celebrities and high-profile political figures ...

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The Formerly GOP

Paula Gordon | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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Sneer. The Republican Way. Never mind transparent disregard for truthfulness (contempt, actually). Two things we can now say with confidence: Repub...

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Mike Dukakis & John Kerry: The Day The Losers Redeemed Themselves

Tony Sachs | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

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It was nice to see John Kerry as angry at George Bush and John McCain as Democrats have been at John Kerry the last four years.

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PUMA -- Endangered Species

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

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Hillary made the case she needed to make to her supporters who were still sitting on the fence, and she did it perfectly, in a speech for the ages.

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Black in America on CNN: Are We There Yet?

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Civil Rights, Pbs, Public Schools, New Orleans, Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Healthy Living, Education, Inner City Obama, Race, Barck Obama, AIDS Washington D.C., Cnn, Race Relations, Poverty and Health, Cable News, Media News

For blacks, it is a call to arms, a celebration of ingenuity, from the breakfast table to the church, to the classroom, to the street. For whites, Black in America has to be just as complicated to watch.

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Greg Mitchell Discusses The Media's Reaction To The Scott McClellan Book

PBS.org | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media

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HuffPost contributor and editor of Editor and Publisher magazine Greg Mitchell discussed the media's reaction to the Scott McClellan book with Bill Mo...

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Television Unplugged? The Verdict on This Year's TV Upfronts

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Lifetime, Upfronts, Myspace, Nielsen, Fox, Tnt, Cbs, Comscore, Merrill Lynch, Apple, NBC Experience, Cnet, B.E.T., Disney, Gossip Girl, Ugc, Cw, Abc, Unilever, Univision, Kimmel, Pbs, Nbc, Hbo, Espn, Fox Business Channel, Advertising, Comedy Central, Hulu, Fox News, Trutv, Pepsico, Nbcu, Moonves, Ign, Ostroff, Tbs, Zucker, Turner, Silverman, Media News