Word: wgbh
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...study the relationship between government and the media. Plans for this project are far from complete, but Moore says he and his associates are working quickly to increase the IOP's involvement in the various media. Examples of this activity include the television series, "The Advocates," co-produced with WGBH of Boston, and the books and reports that often result from IOP studies. Moore also intends to step up direct aid to the journalistic cause through the IOP's series of seminars on specific topics for journalists. "The media are growing too fast," says Moore. "They didn...
...Saudis had reason to feel wronged. Like so-called faction literature, the TV hybrid known as documentary drama typically consists of real-life events embedded in a marzipan of speculation and romance. In Princess, co-produced by Britain's independent Association Television network and WGBH, the PBS station in Boston, the marzipan is the message. South African-born Director Antony Thomas set out to film a straight drama on the life and death of Princess Mashall, a lively young grandniece of Saudi Arabia's King Khalid. Mashall, whose arranged marriage soured, supposedly went to study at a Beirut...
...hour "drama-documentary," co-produced by Britain's Associated Television and WGBH-TV in Boston, after will televise it for U.S. viewers on May 12, was intended as "a serious and concerned journey into the Arab world," in the words of U.S. Executive Producer David Fanning, But within hours of the broadcast, Saudi Arabia reacted with a howl of protest. The Saudi embassy in London denounced the film as a "sensation-seeking piece of fiction" and "an unprincipled attack on the religion of Islam." What seems to have particularly offended the Saudis, besides the vivid re-enactment...
Christopher Lydon, a newscaster for WGBH-TV, proposed the conference's most startling theory when he said that President Carter knew that militants would occupy the American embassy in Tehran if he admitted the deposed Shah to the United States for medical treatment. Lydon said Carter may have planned beforehand to use the hostage issue as a means of toughening his image for the re-election campaign...
Stephen Bailey, professor of Education, who helped to draft the report of the Carnegie Commission for the Future of Public Broadcasting, and Henry Becton, general manager of WGBH-TV, offered different perspectives on how public television could best adapt to meet the needs of the public...