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	PBS Will Fight For Federal Funding
		Some PBS programming, such as the investigative series ``Frontline'' and American drama, wouldn't attract enough private funding to stay on the air, the executives said.
		It's been more than a decade since PBS produced a program geared to fls, arguably the type of community underserved by commercial broadcasters that the public system was invented for, Ledbetter said.
		PBS and Ledbetter agree that public broadcasting would be better served by a funding mechanism that insulates it from recurring political battles, either a trust fund or a dedicated revenue stream.
	www.beachbrowser.com /Archives/eVoid/July-99/PBS-Will-Fight-For-Federal-Funding.htm (679 words)

	Frontline (US TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		FRONTLINE is a public affairs television program of varying length produced at WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, and distributed through the Public Broadcasting Service network in the United States.
		FRONTLINE has made many of its documentaries (53, as of January 2006) available via streaming Internet video, from their website.
		In 2002, the series was awarded the DuPont-Columbia gold baton for the seven films.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frontline_(PBS_TV_series) (1217 words)

	FRONTLINE Examines Impact of Television on Society in "Does TV Kill?" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		FRONTLINE cameras are installed in the home of third-grader Paul Martin, whose mother won't allow him to play in the neighborhood for safety reasons.
		FRONTLINE is closed captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing.
		FRONTLINE is produced by a consortium of public television stations: WGBH Boston, WTVS Detroit, WPBT Miami, Thirteen/WNET New York and KCTS Seattle.
	interact.uoregon.edu /MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/front.html (1278 words)

	The Agonist: Frontline: Truth, War and Consequences
		Frontline: Truth, War and Consequences opens with soundbites and video clips from the run-up to war in Iraq, but we quickly cut to an Iraqi exile, one Kanan Makiya, driving in Iraq for the first time in many years.
		PBS's eminent investigative series kicks off its new season tonight with a devastating documentary on how the Bush administration sold the war and got rid of Saddam Hussein (well, almost) but seems to have overlooked the need for a plan after declaring victory.
		NY Daily News: This "Frontline" is a look at the political strings, including slanting the evidence, that sometimes are pulled to start a war, and errors in judgment or political infighting that can complicate its aftermath.
	www.agonist.org /archives/009591.html (788 words)

	FRONTLINE: home \| PBS
		Watch "War of Ideas," the final episode of FRONTLINE\'s News War series, and "Requiem," a tribute to journalists who were killed for doing their job.
		In "Gangs of Iraq," a joint production of FRONTLINE and the America at a Crossroads series, FRONTLINE examines how the four-year effort to train Iraqi forces has failed and how the Coalition-trained forces have themselves been infiltrated by various sectarian militias.
		Funding for FRONTLINE is provided by the Park Foundation and through the support of PBS viewers.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline (696 words)

	washingtonpost.com: PBS Scrutiny Raises Political Antennas
		PBS, they say, is being forced to toe a more conservative line in its programming by the Republican-dominated agency that provides about $30 million in federal funds to the Alexandria-based service.
		PBS officials were unaware that the corporation intended to review its news and public affairs programs, such as "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" and "Frontline," until the appointments were publicly announced.
		In January, PBS came in for more criticism, this time a rebuke from Education Secretary Margaret Spellings over an episode of a children's travelogue program in which a rabbit character named Buster paid a visit to two families headed by lesbians.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A8067-2005Apr21?language=printer (1079 words)

	Documentary Television Links -- Documentary TV -- Documentaries on Television, Frontline, 60 Minutes, POV, Sundance ...
		Frontline is a weekly one-hour series that airs on the Public Broadcasting System, and that has, over the past two decades, provided over 300 long-form documentaries on various subjects, including politics, society, and personal stories.
		Frontline in recent years has taken the step of showing a icon in the documentaries when more information on a particular subject can be accessed on the web.
		PBS -- Beyond its documentary series, the Public Broadcasting System can be counted on to provide a considerable number of additional documentaries each year.
	www.documentaryfilms.net /television.htm (920 words)

	Frontlinephonics
		Frontline Phonics has helped thousands of children to read over the past 15 years.
		Frontline Phonics is dedicated to the ideal that literacy is attainable for every child.
		Frontline Phonics wants to improve the world by making reading an attainable educational goal for every child.
	www.national-shopping.com /frontlinephonics (404 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: PBS feels heat of indecency debate, bleeps Iraq war piece
		Fanning said he wanted PBS to make the unedited version its main feed to stations and offer the bleeped version as a second choice — typical practice until a year or so ago.
		PBS removed that episode and a wave of strong criticism from liberal supporters ensued, although WGBH bypassed public television and made the episode available to interested stations, including KCTS.
		On Monday, PBS President Pat Mitchell announced she will not seek to renew her contract when it expires in 2006.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002183615_pbs18.html (1014 words)

	A new side of 'Frontline' / PBS offshoot seeks to tell foreign news in different way
		But the PBS program called "Frontline/World" that premieres Thursday night comes from a long tradition of foreign affairs reporting -- a tradition that is getting a makeover, admits series editor Stephen Talbot.
		By co-producing the series, KQED is helping originate a news show, which it hasn't done much of in recent years.
		The tagline for the new series is "Stories From a Small Planet." Each segment is introduced by a view of the world from outer space, which then zooms in on a map of the country in question.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/21/DD97486.DTL&type=printable (628 words)

	Current.org \| Frontline's sibling World, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Zooming in on the actual headquarters of the PBS series, however, is decidedly less dramatic: the attic-like space at the University of California, Berkeley, features a small desk, some shiny awards scattered about and an editing bay in the corner, but not much else.
		TV factories are generally less captivating than expected, but World’s humble home base is especially at odds with the roving adventurer feel its producers have worked hard to cultivate.
		PBS programming co-chief Jacoba Atlas is a fan of the show but notes there is very little “wiggle room” on the primetime schedule.
	current.org /doc/doc0508frontlineworld.shtml (2151 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Frontline
		"Frontline" has been the flagship public affairs series on PBS since 1983, using long-form documentaries to delve into topics making headlines.
		Producer Helen Whitney discusses the life and legacy of Pope John Paul II and Frontline's chronicle of his story from his birth in 1920 to his ascension to the world stage as the leader of the Catholic Church.
		Executive producer Zvi Dor-Ner discussed Frontline's examination of the small group of Israelis who are vowing to derail the Mideast peace process.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/liveonline/style/tv/frontline (179 words)

	WQPT \| Featured Programming
		FRONTLINE reports from the lawless Pakistani tribal areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and reveals how the area has fallen under the control of a resurgent Taliban militia.
		In a region little understood because it is closed to most observers, FRONTLINE investigates a secret front in the war on terror.
		Five years after the attacks on 9/11 and the massive, multibillion-dollar reorganization of government agencies that followed, FRONTLINE and New York Times reporter Lowell Bergman investigates the domestic counterterrorism effort and asks whether we are any better prepared to prevent another catastrophic attack.
	www.wqpt.org /programming/2006/october/frontline.html (396 words)

	Frontline - Lost Remote TV Blog
		Rany Aronson, producer of the PBS Frontline film ‘News War,’; chatted at WashingtonPost.com’s Live Online with viewers who were captivated by the program and disgusted at the same time by the state of journalism surrounding coverage leading up to the Iraq invasion and the Plame Affair.
		MBA is also partnering with Frontline on a feed related to the four-part documentary, which will be part of the PBS.org site.
		Frontline’s site is loaded with interviews and will eventually offer the whole series for online viewing (they’ll post the first part on Wednesday).
	www.lostremote.com /index.php?tag=frontline (245 words)

	Current.org \| 'Frontline' and David Fanning
		Without the series, a generation of young TV viewers would have reason to give up hope for serious television journalism.
		Frontline did a "very nice and edgy" profile Yasir Arafat in 1990, according to a producer close to the series.
		The series staff has already warned stations to be ready for flak from supporters of the evangelist/politician.
	www.current.org /prog/prog123f.html (1288 words)

	award tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		FRONTLINE: News War “In a four-hour special, News War, FRONTLINE examines the political, cultural, legal, and economic forces challenging the news media today and how the press has reacted in turn”.
		Based on a newspaper series done by the Oregonian, it shows how the “meth epidemic” spread from the west coast.
		frontline actually has a pretty good special about the crazy innerworkings of the creditcard biz.
	awardtour.net /tag/frontline (430 words)

	After Katrina Disaster, Award-Winning PBS Series NOVA and FRONTLINE Investigate What Went Wrong
		(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050919/DCM030) "In a media landscape driven by image and sound bites, the public trusts PBS to provide the depth, context and perspective that are essential to understanding the full complexity of a disaster that will affect all Americans for years to come," said John F. Wilson, Sr.
		About PBS PBS is a private, nonprofit media enterprise that serves the nation's 348 public noncommercial television stations, reaching nearly 90 million people each week.
		PBS is the leading provider of educational materials for K-12 teachers, and offers a broad array of educational services for adult learners.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-19-2005/0004110383&EDATE= (605 words)

	Video on Demand — Instructional Television
		The Language of Trauma and Loss is a series designed to allow students at the elementary, middle school and high school levels to have a forum for expressing feelings of loss or trauma that have occurred in their lives.
		Using historical footage and narration, this series focuses on the social, economic, political and scientific events of each decade — from the 1920s to the 1960s.
		This series is based on the 17 learning outcomes students must master for Ohio’s 8th-grade social studies proficiency test.
	www.pbs4549.org /voditv.htm (1287 words)

	Poynter Online - Combining Forces for a Converged Investigation
		PBS' "FRONTLINE," working with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The New York Times and a U.C. Berkeley graduate class on investigative reporting, has produced an investigation that explores what the producers call the new front in the war on terror: Europe.
		It was the source of all kinds of griping by print reporters who claimed the TV people were hijacking their stories.
		For example, the outtake transcripts of interviews are rarely made available to those who are curious, even today with the networks having their own Web sites.
	www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=77528 (955 words)

	Putting the public into PBS (kottke.org)
		The series is not going to cost any money to acquire beyond the $50 the 3-DVD set costs and from what I hear, it's an interesting and professionally produced view of a topic that many in your potential audience might be interested in watching.
		A nationwide public access channel that draws the best citizen content from around the country and (this is the important bit) is edited into PBS programming.
		Or at least take a few hours out of the week for this...I don't want to see Frontline, Sesame Street, Nova, or Newshour with Jim Lehrer taken off the air, but giving the Make magazine gadgeteers a half-hour a week to geek out about hacking stuff seems reasonable.
	www.kottke.org /05/06/public-pbs (317 words)

	Frontline - Television Review
		While the series overall is educational, some installments include in-depth interviews and video footage that may be too strong for younger viewers.
		FRONTLINE is a hard-hitting, magazine-style documentary news series that looks at contemporary, often-controversial issues, focusing on the people who work on the frontlines of the major events of our time.
		The series is intended to provide thorough coverage of all aspects of a particular issue.
	www.commonsensemedia.org /tv-reviews/Frontline.html (607 words)

	PBS Series Takes Hard Look At Terrorism In Middle East
		PBS and "Frontline" are continuing their examination of terrorism.
		Both the league championship series and the World Series are airing on the FOX broadcast network.
		It was also the first series to regularly be filmed on film thus enableing the reruns of the show to run (and sell) forever.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/television/82224 (478 words)

	Zap2it - TV news - PBS Targets Teens With Three New Series
		PBS will air two expanded 27-minute episodes of "American High" back-to-back starting April 4 from 10-11 p.m., with the second episode of one week repeated as the first episode of the following week.
		The 13-episode series is slated to air in September.
		In addition, "P.O.V" will be airing the TV premiere of Fred Wiseman's 1968 documentary "High School" this summer and Frontline will present the special "The Merchants of Cook," which studies the efforts of mass-marketing upon teen culture, on Feb. 27 at 10 p.m.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271\|64993\|1\|,00.html (416 words)

	02.25.98 - Frontline Comes to Berkeley
		Documentaries are the greatest gift TV has brought to the people, but they've been mutated into cheap info-tainment.
		In 1996, journalism dean Orville Schell suggested to Frontline's executive producer that a Frontline office at Berkeley could give students first-hand experience with the best in the business and, at the same time, give Frontline a West Coast presence in a provocative university environment.
		Frontline is carried on 200 public TV stations (locally on Channel 9, Tuesday at 10 p.m.), reaching 4 million to 10 million viewers.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/1998/0225/frontline.html (684 words)

	Public TV Tilts Toward Conservatives
		PBS does not offer one weekly news/talk show presenting the agendas of groups often in conflict with big business, such as environmentalists, consumers or labor.
		PBS executives admit that their weekly current events lineup favors conservative commentators, but say they can't find funding for an opposing show.
		And many of the corporations that give large amounts of money to public TV are companies that have an interest in influencing public policy.
	www.fair.org /extra/best-of-extra/public-tv-conservatives.html (691 words)

	Soldiers’ Words May Test PBS Language Rules - New York Times
		The PBS documentarian Ken Burns has been working for six years on “The War,” a soldier’s-eye view of World War II, and those who have seen parts of the 14-plus hours say they are replete with salty language appropriate to discussions of the horrors of war.
		She said that while she understands how PBS arrived at its policy for documentaries, the station might not adhere to it for series like “Frontline” and “The American Experience,” particularly when tackling war topics where strong language reflects reality.
		Sloan of PBS said, “This is an unhappy situation for all of us and we’re very concerned about the situation,” but added that producers are required to submit F.C.C.-compliant material.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/07/22/arts/television/22pbs.html?ex=1311220800&en=132201c2731dccfe&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1073 words)

	OPB :: Meth: The Oregon Front
		Please take the time to view an introduction to the series from Steve Bass, OPB President and CEO, and watch our program Meth: The Oregon Front.
		Produced by OPB for FRONTLINE, this program investigates America’s addiction to meth and exposes the inherent conflict between the illegal drug trade and the legitimate three-billion-dollar cold remedy business.
		Listen to OPB Radio's series of commentaries form people living and working on the front lines of the meth epidemic.
	www.opb.org /meth (299 words)

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