Today the States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision that found the the FCC’s 2006 decision to punish broadcasters for Cher and Nicole Richie’s “fleeting expletives” was based on vague and inconsistent standards. It is likely that this decision and possibly the upcoming decision on Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” in the [...]
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Appeals Court Hammers the FCC on inconsistent indecency rulings
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Future of public media, PBS, Public Affairs, Public Media
Tags:Cher·content flags·FCC·Indecency Policy·Nicole Ritchie·wardrobe malfunction
Vivian Schiller announces One Big Online Platform for Public TV and Radio
June 14th, 2010 · No Comments · NPR, PBS
Vivian Schiller of NPR trumpeted the new “one-stop” platform for your public media fix every day… I’m not sure how this will relate to individual station sites or feed visitors back to them… we’ll see. I don’t see myself going anywhere but NCPR for the In-box, nor anywhere but MLPBS for the latest Mountain Lake [...]
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Producer’s Resource: Writing a Better Treatment
June 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Filmmaking, PBS
Below is an invaluable tool for anyone seeking to write a pitch document for a grant, private investor, foundation or broadcaster. I’ve been referring to it for several years and re-read every six months or so. I’d add to the discussion several key points:
1) Describe (early in your treatment) what [...]
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CPB/PBS Producer’s Academy Take 1 – Gaming a social issue Doc
May 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Filmmaking, Multi-media, PBS, Public Media
I’m thrilled to have been selected to attend the 25 person “CPB/PBS Producer’s Academy” at WGBH in Boston in late June. As students we have already been assigned quite a bit of homework and have learned who are classmates are. A very accomplished lot!
Here is a short video about the most recent work of Chelo [...]
Tags:CPB/PBS Producer's Academy·Documentary·social change·social issues·transmedia storytelling·video gaming
Content Accesibility Project: Why bother?
May 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Future of public media, PBS, Public Media
I went to a fine workshop at the PBS annual meeting where a hard-working group presented a lot of practical information and findings on how to help our viewers find our shows, be less frustrated and feel more connected to our station. Things like keeping our program titles succinct and specific, creating short episode descriptions [...]
Tags:consumer electronics·Content Accesiblility Project·Google TV·YouTube
Let’s Put the ‘Public’ back in Public Broadcasting
May 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Future of public media, News, PBS, Public Affairs, Public Media
I usually try to shorten reposted blogs, but this Gwen Ifill/Jay Rosen dialogue has really caught my interest. I’m convinced that public media needs to be looking at itself HARDER and with more real concern than we are. Because the tidal wave is about to wash over us… (for more background on the Ifill/Rosen story [...]
Tags:future of PBS·Future of public media·Gwen Ifill·journalism·PBS·Public Affairs·Washington Week in Review
Lobby group wants to make docs a priority for Public Television
May 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Filmmaking, Future of public media, Multi-media, PBS
This group is looking worldwide, but I wonder how PBS might respond to this group’s plea.
Lobby group wants to make docs a priority for PSBs
by Kelly Anderson
At the recent Hot Docs festival, MercuryMedia CEO Tim Sparke took the opportunity to announce the launch of the Documentary Distributors’ Association, a group [...]
Tags:Documentary·film distribution·Future of public media·Hot Docs·PBS·public television
Ouch! “Need to Know” takes one for the team!
May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Future of public media, Multi-media, News, PBS, Public Affairs, Public Media
Washington Post Critic takes on PBS for replacing Moyers with Need to Know:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/10/AR2010051005113.html
I’m not sure it is really deserved. Watch here and decide for yourself: http://video.mountainlake.org/program/1458405365/
via video.mountainlake.org
Tags:future of PBS·Future of public media·Need to Know·News·Online video·PBS·PBS News·social media