Word: pbs
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...Governor next year. * But he has more than welcomed fresh attention as point man in the gathering campaign against the Administration's tax-reform plan. In that role, Cuomo had been popping up all over the place last month -- on ABC's This Week with David Brinkley, on PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour, at Harvard's Class Day, at the New York University commencement, before the congressional Joint Economic Committee. Still, his crusade seemed to be struggling in obscurity until he was hit with the Buchanan bombardment. The combative White House communications director responded to Cuomo first in a news...
...works of journalism can claim the label definitive. But to many viewers and critics, PBS's 13-part series Viet Nam: A Television History, first telecast in the fall of 1983, seemed a valid contender for the title. Scrupulously researched, the $5.6 million project recounted the complex history of the war with admirable thoroughness and dispassion. The series was widely praised as a comprehensive and balanced piece of work, and it won a host of major journalism awards, including six Emmys...
This week, however, the series will come under attack on the very network that gave it life. PBS, in an unusual move, will run an hour-long rebuttal produced by Accuracy in Media, the conservative group dedicated to exposing "liberal bias" in print and on television. The AIM film is the centerpiece of a two-hour Inside Story special that includes a brief history of the PBS series, an examination of AIM's major charges and a 22-minute panel discussion of the issue. The segment is moderated by Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller and involves historians, journalists and representatives...
...original series' producers argue that the AIM program is a shallow and polemical response to an exhaustively researched work of scholarship. "If PBS feels that a reply to this series is appropriate, why does AIM get a monopoly?" asks Executive Producer Richard Ellison. "It's a precedent that I consider dangerous in and of itself, and also because it is part of a general atmosphere of pressure on the media from the right...
...Critics need to remember what a struggle painting is." That sympathetic view comes from TIME's art critic, Robert Hughes, who this week offers a provocative assessment of contemporary U.S. art. Hughes is eminently qualified for his subject. He was the creator and host of the 1981 eight-part PBS series The Shock of the New: The Life and Death of Modern Art, and its forthcoming sequel, American Visions. In addition, he is a two-time winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism...