This started out as an Ombudsman's Mailbag, a collection of viewer comments on a fairly wide range of programs that had aired recently. There was little or no comment from me because there were no dominant or especially controversial themes... More »
Two PBS offerings this week, both of them on Tuesday evening, Jan. 16 — a 90-minute Frontline documentary provocatively titled "Hand of God," and a 30-minute interview with President Bush by Jim Lehrer on the nightly NewsHour — produced a... More »
Welcome to another Ombudsman's Mailbag. This one is rather long. In fact, it is extremely long. You could even call it a "surge," to use the word of the moment. This mailbag surge is mostly because there's been a burst... More »
That little black-and-white PBS logo that you see on your TV screen — the one with the three facial silhouettes — is accompanied by the PBS motto, which is "Be more." The idea, if you read the fine print, is... More »
