Word: pbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even in the office of my senator, one of the Northeast's most powerful politicians. Xeroxing, filing, opening the 700 to 1,000 pieces of mail we received each day, answering phones and other clerical tasks formed the bulk of my assignments. It was about as thrilling as a PBS documentary on the mating rituals of the three-toed tree sloth...
FORGET ABOUT WHETHER RUTH BADER GINSBURG WILL MAKE IT TO THE Supreme Court. What Washington journalists really want to know is which of them will get Paul Duke's job as moderator of PBS's venerable news-analysis show, Washington Week in Review. Since June, when Duke, 66, announced his decision to retire, much of the national press corps has been gaga over the prospect of succeeding him. At last count more than 50 applications had been submitted, including many from print journalists who, in other circumstances, enjoy belittling TV. But never mind consistency -- the Washington Week...
...familiar debate over the ideological tilt of PBS's documentaries misses the real problem with such programming: just as conservatives loathe PBS shows that challenge their comfortable world view, the liberals responsible for PBS documentaries aren't much interested in discovering truths that might jostle their notions of truth and injustice. Neither side really wants let-the-chips- fall-where-they-may TV. Edge, an irreverent PBS magazine show, was canceled last year after airing just eight programs, and PBS declined a $5 million grant to create unconventional 1992 election-year coverage. "Anything apart from the norm...
Devoted viewers also crave the reassurance of the status quo. It's not just Rumpoles and films of elk that compel many PBS maniacs; rather, they like the sense of belonging to a tweedy club, of feeling urbane by virtue of the TV channel they watch. There are apparently fewer and fewer such people, however: between 1987 and 1992, public TV lost 22% of its prime-time audience, twice the decline of commercial networks...
SPECTATOR: The Problems with PBS...