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What Future for PBS?

can we put the contact info on the screen as well? In 2000, when I cut the deal with the BBC to spend five years converting their stations to the VJ model, I was asked to address the Board...

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Going Deep

…going…. going….gone? (not until tomorrow morning) Michael Blair. Running back for the Cincinatti Bengals and the Green Bay Packers… and now, a TJ or Travel Journalist for 5Takes Latin America.

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Oatmeal

Fair and balanced…. blech…… For the past two days I have been involved in simultaneous discussions both on b-roll.net and vergenewmedia.com: what is a ‘journalist’. A great deal of this has been precipitated by Josh Wolf’s release after 226...

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Listen Up!

Jack Hitt…. A real journalist….. Congratulations to my old friend Jack Hitt who just won a Peabody for his story on “Gitmo” on This American Life. He and I both went to Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (’83),...

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IF PBS RAN THE ART WORLD

Can you make it more like South Park? Television, despite all the billions of human labor hours that have been spent making stuff (and that is what TV is all about, making stuff..just like painting or sculpture), has produced...

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