Word: pbs
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...PBS's chronicle of the sorrow and the pity of Viet...
...emotional impact is a 13-hour documentary series, Viet Nam: A Television History, to air starting next week on the Public Broadcasting Service. (One episode will also be shown this Friday by ABC News, which donated $50,000 to the project in 1978.) The ambitious series was produced by PBS's Boston affiliate, WGBH, in conjunction with Britain's Central Independent Television and France's Antenne 2. Assembled by a multinational team that focused on America but gained access to Communist Viet Nam, the 13-part report is fair and generally balanced. It speaks more in sorrow...
...asked Miller, a nationally renowned expert on civil procedure appointed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger to serve on one of the court's advisory committees. Similarly, when Fred Friendly, the former president of CBS News, needed three experts to moderate his "Media and Society" seminars and his PBS series, "That Delicate Balance," he chose two from Harvard--Nesson and Miller. According to Friendly, both men have easygoing manners that often camouflage their expertise and ability to advance arguments quickly and smoothly. "I see them both as a combination of Socrates and Phil Donahue," Friendly says, "More Socrates...
From its inception in 1975, the MacNeil-Lehrer Report was seen by ABC, NBC and CBS as a noncompetitive follow-up to their newscasts. Indeed, some ads for the PBS show even urged viewers to watch a network newscast first. But now, in cities including New York, Washington, Miami and New Orleans, the NewsHour airs at the same time as the network shows and seeks to steal some viewers away. Says MacNeil: "We got tired of being only a supplement to the networks, and wanted to become an alternative...
...fundamental question that NewsHour must answer, for PBS stations that resisted the expansion and for audiences who liked it as it was, is why the producers gambled with a proven success. MacNeil admits to having felt personally "confined" by the old format. Says he: "The half hour had a clear role, but it was always intended as just a foot in the door." Now that the door is open the show must trace a clear path...