Comments on: Video: Introducing WIDE ANGLE Host Aaron Brown

By: Nora Barkley

Nora Barkley — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:16:00 +0000

Finally, Aaron Brown is back. The voice of intelligence, consistency and all around terrific broadcaster. He made sense of things when things in the world did it not make sense. He is a breath of fresh air, without all the dramtics that others use (CNN) I am so glad to see him back on the airwaves. Not only that, he is easy on the eyes!

By: Leonard Isenberg

Leonard Isenberg — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:59:18 +0000

At the root of ever other problem this country faces is the failure to educate our citizenry. Excellent public education was an assumed prerequisite for our Founding Fathers when they choose democracy and rooted power in the people.

Presently, self-inflicted ignorance precludes normal functioning of this putative democracy, because the continued dumbing down of public education in a sytem that the vast majority of Whites have abandon has created a polarized society where the equality of access to learning is even greater than it was in 1954 when Brown declared that separate but equal education is- and remains- inherently unequal and debilitating to our society.

Like the present discussion concerning health care, the discussion of truly creating a superior public education system ignores systems in other countries that presently function at a level that this country hasn’t seen in over 40 years.

I am in the process of building a website called http://www.publiceducationreform.com or per.daily, which will create the virtual commons necessary for people to finally create a counterbalance to corrupt an unaccountable public education bureaucracies that up until now have been allowed to fail year after year with not consequences.

It would be an excellent documentary for Mr. Brown to show how education systems in Europe and elsewhere do not employ social promotion and grade inflation, but rather require a nationally maintained standard of minimal educational achievement, before students are allowed to pass from one grade to the next.

As long as the discussion of gangs and those who are incarcerated is couched only in terms of more police and gang czars and not a system motivated exclusively on Average Daily Attendance, there will be no improvement of public education and the ripple effect it is having throughout our society.

By: Diane Bowen

Diane Bowen — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:45:35 +0000

What a breath of fresh air. Aaron Brown hooked up with PBS!

By: Alan Braunstein

Alan Braunstein — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:01:03 +0000

Mr Brown – welcome back!! You have been sorely missed. Thank you for making the time, again, for those of us who, as you said, care. You, sir, are one of the best.

Take good care.

By: Audrey L. Gabel

Audrey L. Gabel — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:34:01 +0000

Good to see Aaron Brown back. He is honesty in reporting. How about research/reporting on the growing problem with EOAD (Early Onset Alzheimer Disease)in our communities. My husband has been struck? with this disability/disease and I have only since discovered that many young people (some in their 40’s even) out there also have this and are struggling with maintaining their sanity and dignity while being accused of being lazy on the job or enept to carry on doing something they have be doing most of their adult life. This was a shocker for us to deal with because we had thought of Alzheimers as a disease of the older generation (at least someone in their 70’s or older). It would probably be a help to others out there to understand that this appears to be a growing issue not only for the older generation but also for some of the middle aged generation too!!

By: Johny

Johny — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:05:04 +0000

Aaron- Great to see you back. The first time I fell in love with your reporting was the day the Twin Towers were hit-911. That traumatic day and your reporting are inseparable for me.

On another point: Recently, I saw your documentary on Wide Angle about ECX. Glad you covered the forgotten ancient Ethiopia’s and her strive but to be honest with you the facts were much distorted and the big elephant in the room was some how ignored-That nation is engulfed in fear; fear of tyranny. I believe where there is no freedom it is hard for free market to flourish. I recommend you to listen NPR’s Gwen Tomkins reporting on 8/08/09 here is the link http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=111487723&m=111487710

I wish all the best and of all things more and more wisdom

Johny

By: Johny

Johny — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:02:04 +0000

Aaron- Great to see you back. The first time I fell in love with your reporting was the day the Twin Towers were hit-911. That traumatic and your reporting are inseparable for me.

I wish all the best and of all things more and more wisdom

Johny

By: susan hendrick-wilson

susan hendrick-wilson — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:52:15 +0000

How wonderful to ifnd you on PBS. A perfect fit for you, PBS and us, your viewers. Long may you wave!

By: marion hunt

marion hunt — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:14:58 +0000

and how very appropriate to find, in the wake of walter chronkite’s death, that you are the first walter chronckite professor–his is a distinguished traditon of television journalism in danger of becoming extinct with the endless parade of showboaters, bores, and right wing fanatics.

By: marion hunt

marion hunt — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:11:53 +0000

thanks so much for the superb reportage on the making of a surgeon from a midwife in mozambique…not only the story of her training, but your sensitive followup on the toll this work takes on her personal life, her pride in what she does, and her love for the new daughter she recently bore.

By: Bet Mulligan

Bet Mulligan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:13:52 +0000

Very glad you’re back.

By: Gladys Bensimon

Gladys Bensimon — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:20:47 +0000

It is CNN’s lost. Aaron Brown was my favorite at that station. As a political filmmaker, I enjoyed very much his work, and I am continue enjoying him as host on Wide Angle for PBS. I Welcome your great reporting, Aaron!!

By: Wayne Sinclair

Wayne Sinclair — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:24:16 +0000

CNN had to out of their collective minds to let this fantastic talent go, I am very happy to see him back on the air once again.

By: Mary Dee Morris

Mary Dee Morris — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:04:18 +0000

Add my name to the long list of CNN viewers who have been missing Aaron Brown for too long — but who are thrilled to know he will continue as host on Wide Angle for PBS. May this be a long-term connection! Aaron Brown and Charlie Rose are two golden assets the American viewing public cannot intellectually afford to be without!