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• Behind the scenes at Sesame Street

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  As Sesame Street celebrates its 40th anniversary, here’s an inside look at how it all began, with author Michael Davis who has written Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. In this appearance at the Atlanta Fulton County Library , Davis shares stories from the first days of the children’s ...
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• The Friday Post #41: Three Videos… Sesame Street, Flutes and Pancakes

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 112
  Happy Birthday to Sesame Street which this week celebrates its 40th season on PBS !   Here’s a video by beatboxing flutist Greg Patillo playing the theme song: Video Credit: Courtesy of YouTube.com and Greg Patillo – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 ...
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• Sesame Street Has Taught Pre-Schoolers Ethics for 40 Years

  
  Ethic Soup — Authority: 119
  Sesame Streets Big Bird is now 40 years old. Who knew? Google knew. In fact, today the Google doodle on the search engines banner is the bottom half of Big Bird -- mostly legs. To mix it up a little, Google had different banner doodles, depending upon the country served. Below is the doodle for Mexico. ...
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• 40 years of PBS

  
  Blast: Boston's Online Magazine — Authority: 610
  Forty years ago today, PBS, the Public Broadcasting System, aired its first television broadcasts, the US Census Bureau announced. PBS began as little more than a string of local educational programs. Over the last four decades, shows like “Sesame Street,” “The American Experience,” “Masterpiece” and ...
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• Television Review | Nova: Becoming Human: On ‘Nova,’ Theories of How the Apes Became Us

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  What the ancestors of humans would have seen in a mirror if mirrors had existed is depicted by Viktor Deak, a paleoartist in New York. Human evolution is the subject of a new “Nova” series.
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• Television Review: Reverberations of a Trial and Its Shocking Aftermath

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Leo Frank was convicted of the murder of a girl in Atlanta.
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• SABC tax – A philosophy for a failed state

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 119
  When state institutions such as the SABC and Eskom start gobbling up public money, it is evidence of a dangerous approach taking root within the state.Instead of introducing competition and efficiency, the state looks to the tax-payer to fund the shortfall. The money does not result in an improvement in the ...
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• KERA Seeks CFO Who’s Fun to be With

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 562
  Also at last night’s World Affairs Council event, I ran into Mary Anne Alhadeff, the CEO of North Texas Public Broadcasting . She said she and her team are super-excited about the launch of their new radio station, KXT (91.7 FM), on Nov. 9. But she had some disappointing news to share. The company’s CFO, ...
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• Pink Martini’s New CD Has Public Broadcasting Ties

  
  KERA Art&Seek Blog — Authority: 529
  Suzanne Marta is the Web Content Editor/Producer for KERA’s Economy Project and has been listening to Pink Martini since 1997.Pink Martini — the quirky little band/orchestra from my hometown of Portland, Ore. — released “Splendor In The Grass,” its fourth CD this week.Songs from previous releases — ...
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• BILL MOYERS JOURNAL: "JUSTICE RICHARD GOLDSTONE": GOLDSTONES UNACCEPTABLY LOW STANDARD

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 129
  PBS is blocking the use of video embeds now, so please watch the two videos over on PBS (hardly "public" broadcasting). The link will open another window to make it easier for you to return here to comment if youre moved to do so. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/102320 09/watch.html Oh God, Judge Richard ...
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• Your morning jolt: Paying more to work in Atlanta

  
  Political Insider — Authority: 440
  When it comes to property taxes, the Atlanta race for mayor is a concern limited to the several hundred thousand people who call themselves residents. Mention “commuter tax,” and suddenly your listening audience expands to several million. Six mayoral candidates participated in an hourlong debate Sunday night, ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Plant’s-Eye View of Desire and Evolution

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  “The Botany of Desire” covers four crops: apples, marijuana, potatoes and tulips (above, a Rembrandt tulip from Hortus Bulborum in the Netherlands).
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• Television Review | Masterpiece Contemporary: Endgame: South Africa’s Invisible Agent of Change

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  "Endgame," with Chiwetel Ejiofor, is being broadcast on Sunday on PBS.
  2 weeks ago

• American media need innovation, not subsidy

  
  Pursuing the Complete Community Connection — Authority: 421
  Whatever else it is, The Reconstruction of American Journalism is not comprehensive.Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of the Washington Post, and Michael Schudson, authors of the Columbia University report, described their work in the Post today as a “comprehensive report.” They recommend federal ...
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• Downie and Schudson’s 6 steps toward “reconstructing” journalism

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 733
  We are not lacking deep lamentations and grand plans for the future of journalism ( clever commentary is abundant as well). New additions to this canon appear weekly, and many have a reactionary bent with lots of chest thumping and hand wringing. It’s often a bit much — which is why the appearance of a ...
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• Television Review | Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth: Gourmet Brand Survives, on a New Platter for PBS

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Ruth Reichl, host of “Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth,” starting on Sunday on PBS.
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• Television Review | Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth: Gourmet Brand Survives, on a New Platter for PBS

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Ruth Reichl, host of “Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth,” starting on Sunday on PBS.
  3 weeks ago

• Of media empires and public broadcasters

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 575
  ABC Managing Director Mark Scott has created quite the stir with his A. N. Smith Memorial Lecture in Melbourne last night. Scott took a pot shot at Rupert Murdoch, characterising him as a “frantic emperor”. Decline and fall of old media empires, and all that. As Jason Wilson observed yesterday in New ...
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• Television Review | Frontline: Obama’s War: Situation Report: The Dilemma of Afghanistan

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  "Frontline: Obamas War," the documentary about the United States involvement in Afghanistan, runs on most PBS stations Tuesday night.
  4 weeks ago

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