This week's mailbag produced half-a-dozen or so letters from viewers who were angry at what they saw as PBS promotion of children being vaccinated against the flu virus, and in some cases, the H1N1 strain of that virus. Their ire... More »
Most of the e-mails to the ombudsman this week came in reaction to last week's column dealing with Frontline's Oct. 13 documentary about Afghanistan with the controversial title, "Obama's War," and with the controversial use of footage of a fatally... More »
The long-running PBS documentary series Frontline aired its new season premiere this week, an hour-long look at the now eight-year-old war in Afghanistan that carried the controversial title, "Obama's War." I'll come back to that title a little further down... More »
As I was saying, we would wait until the completion of the six-part, 12-hour Ken Burns series on "The National Parks" before pulling together a representative sampling of viewer observations sent to the ombudsman's inbox. Not surprisingly, this makes for... More »
Not About 'The Parks' The sweeping, six-part, 12-hour documentary series by Ken Burns, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," is still running at the time of this posting, so I'm going to save some of this week's mail commenting on... More »
