Tag Archives: PBS

Facebook Wants You to Know if You’re Getting Your News From the Wrong Government

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Luther Blissett

By Jim Naureckas Source: FAIR There’s a famous polling experiment that asked people in the Cold War-era US: Do you think the United States should let Communist newspaper reporters from other countries come in here and send back to their … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: The Lathe of Heaven

Posted on March 10, 2018 by Luther Blissett

“The Lathe of Heaven” (1980)  PBS television adaptation of the 1971 science fiction novel The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. It’s directed by David Loxton and Fred Barzyk (Between Time and Timbuktu)  and stars Bruce Davison as … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: The Andy Kaufman Show

Posted on May 20, 2017 by Luther Blissett

SAVE PBS! AFTER ALL, IT RAN ANDY KAUFMAN’S BRILLIANT, DEMENTED ‘TALK SHOW’ IN 1983 By Martin Schneider Source: Dangerous Minds Holy moly! In 1983, just a year before his death of lung cancer—an event some people dispute ever happened—Andy Kaufman was … Continue reading →

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