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Public Broadcasting Appreciation Thread
MKR
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I don't watch much TV, but the few shows I did were affected by the strike. I realized that I haven't watched PBS in years, and went to take a look, hoping to find something to fill the gap. I don't remember PBS being this awesome when I last watched it:
Wired has a TV show?!
News without the bright lights and patriotic music
NOVA, because killer ants and large bugs are fun
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I don't watch much TV, but the few shows I did were affected by the strike. I realized that I haven't watched PBS in years, and went to take a look, hoping to find something to fill the gap. I don't remember PBS being this awesome when I last watched it:
Wired has a TV show?!
News without the bright lights and patriotic music
NOVA, because killer ants and large bugs are fun
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Because NPR is great.
Don't PBS and NPR work closely together anyway?
Might as well open the thread to NPR too. :P
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they've done a lot of great stuff, and world service is fan fucking tastic.
Looking back, I am soooo glad.
NPR is my default radio station. This American Life is probably the best thing to come out of mass media ever.
Agreed. Every week I listen to it and every week I'm blown away at at least part of it. I often put off listening to them (in podcast form) because it looks like the subject doesn't appeal to me, but when I do get around to listening to them, they are always surprising and amazing, and nothing at all like what I was expecting.
Charlie Rose.
He is the interviewer to beat all interviewers, if you ask me. He always has interesting guests, and he has an excellent interviewing style.
No lies
It was a "Holy crap!" moment for me too. And the show is excellent.
Also, I get the impression every affiliate has a local news show. Ours has several Georgia-specific shows.
I do enjoy As It Happens.
They do, I wasn't trying to imply we're special or anything in that regard just how awesome our local one is. Hell, every monday they have an old Bears member come on to talk about the previous night's game. ESPN doesn't do that.
I also love that my cable company added BBC World to its line up a ways back. Between that and CBC I need never subject myself to the hysterics of CNN.
When CNN has no real news to report they remind me of chickens absently squawking in a barnyard.
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This is so true. Quiet, thoughtful, in-depth interviewing is a lost fucking art. You'll find out more about someone in five minutes on Rose than in ten years of Leno appearances.
I sort of feel like NPR sometimes unfairly overshadows PBS because the former is a bit of a hipster lifestyle accessory and can focus with laser precision on its particular demographic - "what's really in your fair trade coffee?" - while PBS has to be more democratic and specifically educational. That's why I generally donate to my public TV station, because even if I'm too old for Sesame Street I don't want to go into my dotage being tended to by kids who didn't watch it. I already feel sort of bad that most people in this thread probably never got to see 3-2-1 Contact.
I am thankful that there is quality television somewhere in the broad spectrum of shitty mc shit shit.
Gone to a place with happy trees.
"And we're going to paint just a little bright cloud right here, all happy and white and blue right next to this beautiful little sun here, okay?"
They need a Bob Ross rx antidepressant.
I just bought a wacom digital tablet and I'm trying to use that and corel painter to do the stuff on his show while I watch it. I don't get all messy and spend a lot of money, and it relaxes me.
Also, anyone remember WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO?
Where the finalists had to run around that damn flat map and find portugal and rio di genero, and they never could..
It featured the wonderful vocal stylings of Rockapella, and the grand prize was a computer, which at the time cost roughly four thousand dollars.... : )
You guys have Tavis Smiley where you are? Do you live around Dallas or has he expanded in popularity since I moved?
Hell yes. I was always so mad, because I knew that if I could get on and make it to the final round, I could find those places. Partly because at the time I watched that show we were hitting the geography hard in 5th grade.
I'm sad that our station in Kansas doesn't carry these. I used to listen to them all the time, because when my dad would pick us up from school and then take us to his office to finish work, these would be on. My dad is such an NPR junkie. I don't listen to as much as I should any more. Marketplace screwed me over in middle school once. I got in some vocabulary bee once, and lost because they were looking for the word "stock market" and the clue they gave was "like NASDAQ". My answer? "Composite index!"
They didn't like it.
Also, I am ashamed no one has mentioned WaitWait! Don't tell me! Its like the radio equivalent of the Daily Show. Sometimes even funnier.
His enthusiasm for the mundane borders on psychotic, but the guy is so nice it's impossible not to like him.
here's a taste of him at a clock convention I'm trying to find one of the really ridiculous things he featured, like a gravel collector or a professional Chili dryer, both of which where a-MAZ-ing (This one's pretty good too.) Much
Also I'm a fan of the McLaughlin Group, one of the few political Discussion shows I can stomach... Also it's funny when they all yell at eachother
Oh! I know I used to love watching that, but the only memory I have is the Rockapella theme song
Mmm. You're talking sense.
*shakes with excitement*