Word: pbs
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...Burns has a knack for making documentaries about some of the most contentious episodes in American history without saying anything that will tick anyone off. Over two decades, his PBS films have taken on the Civil War, feminism, World War II and, above all, race. They've been criticized for omissions: Hispanics in The War, modern artists in Jazz. But on the whole, they're substantive without being polarizing, passionately arguing positions almost everyone agrees with: Racism is bad, democracy is good, war is hell...
...latest, six-part PBS series - The National Parks: America's Best Idea, which debuts Sept. 27 - does not sound like an exception. Who's going to argue with a tree? And the opening minutes - luxuriating in dramatic shots of lava flows, stalactites and waterfalls - promise plenty of unobjectionable, pledge-drive-friendly nature porn. But in a way he couldn't have planned, Burns has ended up making his most topical and political film yet. With America frothing over the role of government - should it save banks? should it expand health coverage? - The National Parks makes a simple case...
...decade the group reunited, "after their rejuvenating years of personal re-definition" (their website's words). Though they kept recording new material, they were essentially an oldies act, appearing with other antique pop-folkies like the Highwaymen and the Brothers Four at concerts that PBS liked to air in prime time during every pledge week. Travers, by then on her fourth husband, had put on quite a few pounds, but she never lost the potent alto that blended so becomingly with Yarrow and Stookey's voices...
America’s most successful children’s education show is still hitting all the right notes. This past Wednesday, just after the president’s health-care address, the 1-2-3 Gang hosted a candid conversation on PBS about job loss, housing woes, personal responsibility, and the importance of family and community. The message was wonderfully uplifting and unclouded: With honest hard work and each other’s help, we can get back to those sunny days...
...political haymaking around something as innocuous as a presidential address to students. In 1991, Democrats attacked President George H.W. Bush for spending $26,750 on a private production company to produce his stay-in-school, say-no-to-drugs message, which was carried live on CNN and some PBS stations. "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the President," House majority leader Dick Gephardt said at the time. The Bush White House's insistence that the speech was "not political" has been echoed in the current Education Department's defense that Obama's address...