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Story Archives of 'Television'
How to Survive the Strange
By Avishay Artsy on Thursday, March 18, 2010.
Network television shows boast star actors, large budgets, and lots of special effects. Internet television, on the other hand, tends toward the amateurish. But it can be produced far from Hollywood sound stages, even in New Hampshire.
In recent years filmmakers on the Seacoast have been flexing their creative muscles making shows for the web, and building devoted audiences for their content. Now this loose-knit collective of producers is starting another series.
Our producer and director Avishay Artsy checked in on the auditions.
C-SPAN Uploads Their Video Archive
By Katrina Ingraham on Tuesday, March 16, 2010.
Can’t get enough C-SPAN? Well political junkies rejoice. C-SPAN has now put its entire video archive online. That’s 160,000 hours of footage spanning 23 years.
Lobbying In The Media
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, February 18, 2010.
Turn on the TV news and you’ll likely see a rotating cast of talking heads discussing everything from health care reform, to the financial crisis, to car safety, to foreign policy. What you don’t often hear is the disclosure that some of those pundits have financial stakes in corporations that stand to benefit from their arguments. Take Former Democratic House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt. Back in September, he appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Meeting,” where he labeled the public option "not essential."
Gephardt was introduced as "an observer through [the] process," meaning that he was a congressman in office during the Clinton health care effort in 1993. No mention was made of his work advising insurance and pharmaceutical interests through his lobbying firm Gephardt Government Affairs. This is just one example reporter Sebastian Jones uses to illustrate what he calls “the lobbying-media complex.”
The Nation: The Lobbying-Media Complex
(Photo by modenadude via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
P-Star Rising
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, February 9, 2010.
The film P-Star Rising begins in a Harlem nightclub. It’s 2 a.m., and the final performer takes the stage. She wears a white fur coat and heavy jewelry, and works the crowd into a frenzy. Oh yeah, and she’s only 9-years-old.
P-Star Rising follows Jesse Diaz, a single father who’s determined to help his 9-year-old daughter Priscilla become a rap star. The documentary screens this week on PBS’s Independent Lens. We’re joined by director Gabriel Noble and the star of the film, Priscilla Diaz.
(Photo courtesy Independent Lens)
Digital Nation
By Virginia Prescott on Monday, February 1, 2010.
We are a digital nation – wired, plugged-in, connected non-stop and networked together through a complex and constantly shifting web. Our digital dependency touches so many facets of our lives that we hardly notice it. Yet, spending so much time online should give us pause.
Today, we talk about what it means to be human in our digital age. PBS Frontline Producer Rachel Dretzin teamed up with Media Theorist Douglass Rushkoff for a look at how technology has reshaped our culture. They found that the way we learn, play, work, wage war and find love have all drastically changed in just a decade. A documentary of their inquiry called Digital Nation, airs this week on PBS.
On The Media: The Internet (Addiction) Age
(Photo by fd via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
Are modern TVs harmful to our eyes?
By EarthTalk on Sunday, January 3, 2010.
EarthTalk®
From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
An Inside Look at New Hampshire’s Parole System
By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, December 16, 2009.Seven people make up our state’s parole board. They’re appointed by the governor, get paid one hundred dollars a day and often come to the job without much experience in law. A new documentary from New England Cable News examines the process, the advantages and the challenges of our citizen-run parole system.
Guests
- Barbara McLeod, special assignment reporter for New England Cable News and producer of the NECN documentary "Who Goes Free? The Parole Dilemma," airing throughout December
- John Eckert, executive assistant of the New Hampshire Adult Parole Board
- Mark Sisti, criminal defense attorney from Chichester
We'll also hear from
- Mark Rubin, research associate at the Maine Justice Policy Center at the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine
- Natasha Frost, assistant professor at Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice, and an advisor to the Massachusetts Parole Board
The Revolution Will Be Televised
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, November 24, 2009.
Ah, the terrible television. America’s once favorite glowing box is being steadily replaced by computer screens, and has been linked to societal ills from aggression to obesity. So when we read a recent article in Foreign Policy extolling the virtues of the boob tube, we nearly did a double take. Development economist Charles Kenny argues that television has led to significant social change in developing countries like Indonesia and Brazil.
It’s not just educational programs or public service announcements that get the praise. Soap operas and American idol-style contests give average Afghanis and Indians a glimpse into other worlds, where women stand up to their husbands and have the power to become national stars. Charles Kenny joins us from New York with more on television as a tool for social change.
Foreign Policy: Revolution in a Box
Times Online: How TV is Making The World a Better Place
(Photo by Oluniyi Ajao via Flickr/Creative Commons)
The Big Card Game
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, November 24, 2009.As we head into the holiday season, read the fine print on your next credit card statement. Even the best cardholders can expect to see interest rates go up, credit lines get cut, and a variety of new fees tacked on.
With a faltering economy and a new law that may limit the credit card industry’s profitability, banks are struggling to make money, and consumers are paying the price. New York Times columnist Joe Nocera observed that adding more fees is often a credit card company’s first response to a dip in profits.
Nocera is one of the people interviewed in The Card Game, an investigative documentary that screens tonight at 9pm on PBS. Longtime investigative journalist and Frontline correspondent Lowell Bergman has produced award-winning stories on organized crime, international arms dealing, drug trafficking, and famously, the tobacco industry’s deceptive practices, which was told in the 1999 film The Insider.
In The Card Game, Bergman speaks with industry insiders, lobbyists, politicians and consumer advocates about how to reform the consumer loan industry. And he joins us now as part of NHPR's “working it out” series.
New York Times: A Squeeze on Customers Ahead of New Rules
(Photo by Baptiste Franchina via Flickr/Creative Commons)
Mr. T Likes Apples, How 'Bout You?
By Jen Nathan on Friday, November 20, 2009.I pity the fool that doesn't know a Gala from a Golden Delicious. Thanks to Word of Mouth's internet sherpa Brady Carlson for the perfect Friday afternoon diversion.
