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...PBS Gets Politicized. Former Corporation for Public Broadcasting chief Kenneth Tomlinson forced right-wing viewpoints onto the public network, in an effort to balance supposed liberal bias, in particular that of NOW with Bill Moyers. It would have been a more convincing argument if Moyers had not left the show months before. This clumsy partisan meddling-from the head of the very body meant to shield public broadcasting from political influence-put the BS in PBS...
Skoll has much bigger ambitions than making money, though. He hopes inspired viewers will take steps to bring about change. With each movie release, the company's partner website, Participate. net, provides viewers with a way to get involved. Working in partnership with the a.c.l.u., Channel One, pbs, Salon.com and Satellite Radio, the "Report It Now" campaign (a takeoff on Murrow's 1950s cbs News program See It Now) asks viewers to report important stories ignored or overlooked by the media. The larger purpose, according to the website, is to "compel the media to get back to reporting...
Bill Nye the Science Guy has inspired lots of middle schoolers to take apart their clock radios. It turns out the PBS host has also inspired a couple of TV executives to try an experiment. The CBS drama Numb3rs, which stars Rob Morrow as an FBI agent and David Krumholtz as his crime-fighting mathematician brother, was sparked by a lecture Nye gave 10 years ago on the subject of turning kids on to math and science. Now the show's creators, husband and wife Nick Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, have enlisted their hero to guest-star...
...graduate of Harvard Law School—even changed his career plans because of Lamb, according to James M. “Ollie” Hallowell ’69. The once lawyer-to-be is now the president of WGBH, Boston’s PBS affiliate. “It was completely life-changing,” Hallowell said of Lamb’s animation course. “Not only was he the single most influential teacher I had at Harvard, but he was one of the single most influential people I’ve ever...
...noble attempt to appeal to a wide demographic, the movie is about thirty minutes too long; after a while, even the most exuberant middle-schoolers will get restless. The film beats its theme of brotherly love into the ground, seemingly lifting dialogue directly from after-school specials on PBS. While the movie should have been a showcase for the talented young stars, too much time is cluttered by CGI special effects. That said, “Zathura” is a bona fide entertaining kids movie that doesn’t insult the age of anyone in the audience. College...