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...Today may never play as well on Park Avenue. It is not the erudite, exhaustive--sometimes exhausting--Times, but neither is it trying to be, any more than CNN Headline News is trying to be the PBS News Hour. And for all the praise USA Today has got for its longer investigative stories--that is, for being like "respectable" newspapers--reaffirming its commitment to accessible news is just as laudable. The paper helped broaden the definition of news beyond the preoccupations of elites: the lead story in its Money section is more likely to be about rising cable rates than...
...more than 150 years later, the trial surrounding the case has been recreated in a new documentary that will make its PBS debut this coming Monday...
DIED. WALLACE TERRY, 65, pioneering black journalist whose coverage of the Vietnam War for the Washington Post and TIME led to the 1984 best seller Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans, which became a 1986 PBS documentary; of Wegener's granulomatosis, an inflammation of the blood vessels; in Falls Church...
...friends also recognize this trait in him, saying that it is well-suited to his profession. Laura H. Pomerantz, Principal of PBS Realty Advisers in New York City who also serves on the board of Carnegie Hall and chairs the Special Events committee, describes him as “analytical and responsible” and a skilled diplomat...
DIED. DAVID IVES, 84, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) pioneer; in San Francisco. During his 14 years as head of Boston's WGBH, that station became PBS's largest programming supplier, responsible for developing such PBS staples as Masterpiece Theatre, Frontline and Nova, many with British pedigrees. His station also introduced Americans in 1974 to the British cult comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus...