***Reminder***Frontline "News wars" starts tonight on PBS

[AlCzervik]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/preview/

[etherealtruth]

1. Thanks for the reminder!

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I've seen several threads today referencing this show. I hope

everyone is able to watch. I think this is going to be an important one.

[Uncle Joe]

9. I have one of them,

but I will kick and recommend this thread as well.

[SquireJons]

3. This looks great

I saw the trailers for the series this weekend, and can't wait. The series goes on for the next couple of weeks, and finishes on Feb. 27th with an interview of Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. That one is of particular interest to me because I have recently come to question their news page. I can't quite figure out who's side Google (the company, not it's employees) are on. Maybe Schmidt will shed a little light.

[wicket]

4. Can't wait!

:kick:

[Kolesar]

5. PBS has been advertising on DU--that means that we have "arrived"

Imagine that, the site where I found a compendium of the Bush Family Evil Empire on the front page and occasional Nader flame wars in the forums is now getting paid by foundation-funded and sponsor-funded PBS. Yee haw. Six years.

[me b zola]

6. Thanks for posting

:kick:

[hwmnbn]

7. This definitely is a must see......

will clear my social calendar.

K&R

[jannyk]

8. kick....

let's keep this in view until showtime - 10pm PST for me on KQED.

[Olney Blue]

10. Thanks!

And hi Princess Bob, guinea pig supreme! :hi:

[jannyk]

11. kick

[tabasco]

12. Thank you. I appreciate this kind of heads-up. n/t

[AlCzervik]

13. kick for the night crew.

[jannyk]

14. kick for the east coast - coming up soon

[mistertrickster]

15. Yeah, part 1 sucked major a$$. Woodward saying he made no mistakes.

Plamegate is "nothing." Judith Miller says she simply reported the same info the gov't had, so she's not to blame.

That's exactly it, Judy, you dumb ass. You're supposed to analyze and corroborate, not just take dictation.

Damn show was so concerned about being "centerist" that it went nowhere.

[Kolesar]

16. Judy Miller used her previous "credibility" on the issues to become a shameless warmonger

From what I gathered elsewhere, Judy Miller had done a lot of reporting about Iraq issues in past decades. So, the editors at NYT thought that she had credible material when in fact she was just Dick Cheney's stenographer.

Frontline made the story look like it was a question of "a reporter's first amendment rights". Brave, brave, brave, brave Miss Judy.