By Molly Secours When I first met Terrence he was 16 years old and had already been living in a Nashville Juvenile prison for four years. Arrested at 12 years old for fatally shooting a 40-year old man during a ‘drug deal gone bad,’ Terrence had the dubious honor of being dubbed ‘Davidson County’s youngest [...]
As President Obama approaches a decision point on Afghanistan strategy and whether to increase troop levels, FRONTLINE has made a 24-minute rough cut of the first act of Obama’s War, scheduled to premiere Tuesday, October 13 on NPT and PBS stations nationwide at 8:00 p.m. Central. The 24-minute rough cut of the first act of [...]
If you missed the premiere of the THE CHOICE 2008 last night, the two-hour program examining the rich personal and political biographies of John McCain and Barack Obama, you can now watch it in its entirety for free on the PBS Frontline web site. The 20th anniversary broadcast of “The Choice” goes behind the headlines [...]
It was the worst climbing tragedy in Mount Everest’s History. As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast-moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The climbers, exhausted from their summit climb, were soon lost in darkness, in a fierce blizzard, far from the safety of [...]
Over at Remotely Connected, Anastasia Goodstein, founder of ypulse.com, blogs about last night’s Frontline episode “Growing Up Online.” While she concludes that the program “succeeds at putting real faces on the sensational headlines we read about this generation growing up online,” she also feels there are things missing. “What I felt was missing from the [...]
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