Public Broadcasting

[EdRomero]

I've been on a PBS and NPR run lately, so I figured I could make a thread for their programs -- kinda like the television thread but a bit snobbier and every few months, I'll beg for money here.

Tom Ashbrook interviewed an author of another Bob Dylan book. There was a good story about Bill Cosby performing in the early sixties the same Greenwich Village bar as Dylan. While Dylan was relaxing with his friends, Cosby went over and lectured/warned/scolded Dylan about the dangers of marijuana. http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/11/27/bob-dylan-real-story" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[EdRomero]

Firestone and the Warlord
How a tire company helped Chuck Taylor come into power by allowing his rebel group to establish a base on their rubber plantation and providing them with lots and lots of money. Your tires caused genocide! Lots of footage dead bodies and kids with guns.

[howard]

That was an amazing film. My parents had told me stories of how the Firestone plantation was practically a sovereign power unto itself when they lived there in the 50s.

[sancarlos]

We watch a lot of PBS, and my wife is a contributing member. But, I'll always love this bit:

Lisa: Mom, Dad's on PBS!
Marge: Hmm? They don't show police chases, do they?
Homer: (fumbling for the right words) Um, it's an honor to give $10,000. Especially now, when the rich mosaic of cable programming has made public television so very, very unnecessary.
(the crowd claps)
Marge: (knowingly) From now on, one of us always stays home.
Lisa: Agreed.

[EdRomero]

When the NSA spying program was exposed, defenders of the program cited the arrest of David Coleman Headley's arrest as an example of a success of NSA spying and why it was so important to spy on Americans. Frontline shows how the NSA, FBI, and other agencies horrendously failed, and that when he finally was arrested (after he pulled off a successful terrorist attack), it was because of old fashioned investigative work (actually, that's a bit of a reach too. Figuring out the case pretty much fell into their lap).

[howard]

I had forgotten about this thread. Last night they had two good shows, one a documentary on the Kent State murders (featuring one of the Devo guys who was a student and on the scene of the massacre), and one on the details of the evacuation of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war.

Sadly, the NSA is a rousing success. They just don't state their actual goals publicly.

[Rush2112]

I had forgotten about this thread. Last night they had two good shows, one a documentary on the Kent State murders (featuring one of the Devo guys who was a student and on the scene of the massacre), and one on the details of the evacuation of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war.

Sadly, the NSA is a rousing success. They just don't state their actual goals publicly.

I think I have known this before, but read this in the history of the 60s I'm currently reading. Seems Mothersbaugh was a Kent State student as well, just not at the protest.

[degenerasian]

I had forgotten about this thread. Last night they had two good shows, one a documentary on the Kent State murders (featuring one of the Devo guys who was a student and on the scene of the massacre), and one on the details of the evacuation of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war.

Sadly, the NSA is a rousing success. They just don't state their actual goals publicly.

40 years ago today, April 30 :(

[A_B]

No commercials, No Mercy!

[EdRomero]

In case you weren't convinced ISIS wasn't evil enough, here's a Frontline episode on sex slaves, stoning, and other disgusting stuff: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/escaping-isis/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[brian]

In case you weren't convinced ISIS wasn't evil enough, here's a Frontline episode on sex slaves, stoning, and other disgusting stuff: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/escaping-isis/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I was on the fence about those guys but this is the last straw.

[EdRomero]

Only a Game getting cancelled.

[wlu_lax6]

Only a Game getting cancelled.

But I can still get F'ing cartalk reruns....f that. WBUR is where I would donate my public broadcasting money.....not anymore. On the other hand it has not been as good since Littlefield retired.

[EdRomero]

Only a Game getting cancelled.

But I can still get F'ing cartalk reruns....f that. WBUR is where I would donate my public broadcasting money.....not anymore. On the other hand it has not been as good since Littlefield retired.

Much cheaper to pay for putting a tape in of an old show. I think they cut 20 percent of their staff. I guess they did listener support during those fundraisers. I loved the weekly talks Littlefield had with Charlie Pierce.