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Socially conscious true-crime docuseries can be powerful voices of righteousness, morality and potential agents of change. I put “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” debuting Wednesday on Netflix, squarely in that category.
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Who has the best TV and social media ads down the home stretch of Baltimore's Democratic mayoral primary?
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The question is why in the world is PBS airing a one-sided, celebratory film of Clarence Thomas from a controversial filmmaker nominated by President Trump to lead the United States Agency for Global Media. Yes, PBS.
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Is the relationship between Sinclair-owned WBFF and former deputy attorney general Thiru Vignarajah appropriate for a TV station that covers news and a candidate?
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Should former Obama Treasury Department official Mary Miller win or come close to winning Baltimore's mayoral race, her heavy use of TV advertising will be a national media story. Trust me.
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Television did hold tremendous promise as a unifying force when it arrived in American homes in the late 1940s and early ’50s. But COVID-19 reveals a TV and streamed video industry primarily deepening cultural divides.
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"After Life," the dark Netflix comedy-drama from Ricky Gervais, speaks like almost nothing else in popular culture to the COVID-19 moment in which we now live.
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It might seem like Mary Miller has largely had Baltimore’s TV airwaves to herself recently. But that’s changing as mail-in ballots are being sent and the Baltimore mayor's race enters its last full month.
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Frontline traces start of COVID-19 crisis in America, telling a tale of two Washingtons | COMMENTARY
Frontline takes viewers back to very start of COVID-19 crisis with Patient One in Seattle as it contrasts governmental and medical responses in two very different Washingtons.
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Since the arrival of COVID-19 and the shutdown of life as we knew it, our screen dependency has grown exponentially. We are now dependent on screens to have any connection to some of our most ancient religious rituals, fundamental civic practices and most profound moments of human life.
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Some dramatic TV rescue from these stay-at-home days and nights arrives with such stars as Tcheky Karyo, Julia Ormond, Tom Hollander, Michelle Dockery, David Tennant, J.K. Simmons and Cherry Jones. Stream on.
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We in the media need to come to a consensus on Mr. Trump’s two-hour, daily, TV marathons. We can no longer indulge his recklessness, irresponsibility and lies as people die.
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If you need any other reason to watch "Mrs. America" beyond the brilliant performance of Cate Blanchett, consider this: The effects of the women’s movement in the 1970s still resonate thunderously through American life today.
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TV news needs to show us the suffering from coronavirus at ground zero inside hospitals | COMMENTARY
As upsetting as the CNN report was to watch, I am glad I got the chance to see and hear with my own eyes and ears what life is like at ground zero at a hospital in the war on COVID-19. We need more reporting like this.
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Maurice Berger was among the first scholars to understand, appreciate and fear television as a great culture machine that could change the way we think and see ― for better or worse.
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This is one messaging war President Trump might lose at the hands of the very weapons he used to get elected: social media and cable TV. How would that be for irony?
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Leaving Trump behind: The president is being marginalized as media look elsewhere for leaders and real heroes who can help us get through this pandemic.
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Just as watching too much cable TV in this time of crisis and chaos can be dangerous to your mental health, tuning it out altogether is also a big mistake.
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As a political allegory, HBO’s “The Plot Against America” is both a clarion warning of what’s happening to our nation today and a searing denunciation of the celebrity president responsible in large part for making it happen.
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Maybe now with the coronavirus tearing through a nursing home in Washington state, the death toll rising throughout the nation and the economy melting down like it’s 2008 all over again, some people will come to see how dangerous it is to have a president suggesting the virus will magically go away in April when the weather warms up or comparing it to the common flu and calling it a Democratic “hoax."
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Five media takeaways from The Sun/WYPR/University of Baltimore poll on the role of media in the city's mayoral race.
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Weep not for Chris Matthews' departure. Cable TV news will be better for it.
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If anyone can be called the face of a TV station in Baltimore, it is Rhea Feikin at Maryland Public Television. On the eve of her final telecast after more than four decades at MPT, Feikin looks back at her career.
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It’s fashionable to trash TV debates, but they are serving democracy exceptionally well | COMMENTARY
Tens of millions of people watch TV debates, yet it is hard to find anyone who has anything good to say about them. Let me say the TV debates in this presidential election cycle have been outstanding lately.
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PBS documentary takes a hard-eyed, illuminating look at history and legacy of lynchings | COMMENTARY
“Always in Season” is the kind of socially-conscious and historically-informed documentary that can spark a tough conversation about lynchings and the nation’s racial past ― a conversation that seems so badly needed today in the midst of landmark demographic change and an old order at the highest levels of government trying to hold onto power.
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David Zurawik: The one-two punch of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren firmly established a characterization of Michael Bloomberg as just another version of Donald Trump. He doesn’t belong here. In fact, he’s a threat to our Democratic ideals. And Bloomberg's look of boredom didn't help his cause one bit.
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I fear that if Michael Bloomberg gets his way, thanks to the best media money can buy, instead of a real choice in November what we are going to get are two rich guys calling each other nasty names on Twitter and then spending tens of millions of dollars on micro-targeted, psychographic-driven Facebook ads calling each other worse names yet.
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“Tommy,” which features Edie Falco as Abigail “Tommy” Thomas, a former high ranking New York City police official who becomes the first female and lesbian police chief of Los Angeles, is not a great TV drama. But it could become one thanks to Falco’s presence and the series’ clear aspiration to an enlightened sense of social consciousness.
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The campaigns of Brandon Scott and Thiru Vignarajah have been running strong on digital media for months. Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young made his first media buy with ads that debuted on Facebook last week, and it's not a very impressive start.
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All of television and media will be better if the Tallahassee-based Black News Channel (BNC) can become the kind of news and information platform management is promising. Such a channel is long overdue.
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