David Zurawik
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PBS has responded to a growing TV and digital divide in a way that realizes some of the best hopes of public television’s founders by offering viewers an archive of streamed programs that are as good or better than anything on premium cable or streamed commercial services. And they are in large part free.
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One of the most depressing parts of being a media critic in recent years has been tracking the degradation of our information ecosystem. But a bad storm brought some good news this week: At least one part of our information system still works, the part that deals with storm watches, warnings and preparedness.
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As a media critic, the most disappointing thing to me about this same-old, same-old from a Baltimore official is that Police Commissioner Michael Harrison is finding media outlets in Baltimore willing to take his words at essentially face value and put them out over the airwaves. And if that kind of unquestioning coverage continues, citizens are going to get spin instead of genuine reform.
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That it took team owner Dan Snyder and others who opposed the name change this long to start to understand how wrong the team’s name and logo are in today’s multicultural America speaks directly to the massive amount of work that still needs to be done in education, protest, media and social change when it comes to depictions involving persons of color.
