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Is breast cancer lurking in your family?: A new PBS documentary explores the dreaded "BRCA" gene mutation, which is leading more and more women to get preventive double mastectomies.; Jessica Wakeman Oct 1, 2008
Brain scam: Why is PBS airing Dr. Daniel Amen's self-produced infomercial for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease?; By Robert Burton May 12, 2008
City of lost children: The PBS documentary series "Carrier" discovers conflict and camaraderie among the (shockingly young) inhabitants of the USS Nimitz.; By Heather Havrilesky Apr 24, 2008
TV Daily: Salon's guide to what to watch on Tuesday: Frontline's "The Undertaking" offers a gentle look at the work of funeral director and poet Thomas Lynch.; Oct 30, 2007
TV Daily: Salon's guide to what to watch on Tuesday: PBS's "Cheney's Law" offers a detailed look at how this administration has acquired unprecedented power.; Oct 16, 2007
TV Daily: Salon's guide to what to watch on Friday and this weekend: The PBS "NOW" special "Child Brides: Stolen Lives" is a sobering look at the lives of girls sold into marriage.; Oct 12, 2007
TV Daily: Salon's guide to what to watch on Monday: Mark the holiday by watching the PBS doc "The Magnificent Voyage of Christopher Columbus."; Oct 8, 2007
I Like to Watch: How suggestible are you? CBS's "Kid Nation," NBC's "Bionic Woman" and ABC's "Private Practice" aim to play you like a fiddle.; By Heather Havrilesky Sep 23, 2007
TV Daily: Salon's guide to what to watch on Friday and this weekend: PBS premieres Ken Burns' insightful, affecting documentary series on World War II, "The War."; Sep 21, 2007
I Like to Watch: America the dutiful! After PBS doc "The Anti-Americans" makes us feel fat and dumb, Ken Burns' "The War" reminds us that we're muy macho.; By Heather Havrilesky Aug 26, 2007
"America at a Crossroads" veers to the right: The highly touted PBS series on Islam and terrorism casts a cold eye on Bush's Iraq disaster -- but fails to examine Mideast history or America's failed policies in the region.; By Gary Kamiya Apr 17, 2007
I Like to Watch: Despots rule! Vic Mackey of "The Shield" seeks revenge, while Showtime invents a slimmer, sexier King Henry VIII.; By Heather Havrilesky Apr 1, 2007
Arming our enemies?: An interview with journalist Martin Smith, the maker of a new PBS documentary on Iraqi militias, about how the U.S. strategy of Iraqification could backfire.; By Alex Koppelman Feb 6, 2007
Bush renominates four stalled judicial nominees: Forsaking the olive branch for a sop to the right.; Tim Grieve Nov 15, 2006
PBS cans technical virgin: A kids show host is fired for appearing in a blue parody PSA.; Rebecca Traister Jul 25, 2006
Tough cookies: The director of a PBS documentary about a Girl Scout troop whose moms are behind bars says our obsession with locking up women is harming their kids.; By Sarah Karnasiewicz Mar 21, 2006
Refuge in "Bleak House": Masterpiece Theatre's languid take on the Dickens classic is a refreshing break from our sound-bite, bloggified culture.; By Stephanie Zacharek Feb 4, 2006
Welcome to no-choice America: PBS's "Frontline" special "The Last Abortion Clinic" shows us why the dark ages of illegal abortions and unwanted children are already here.; By Heather Havrilesky Nov 8, 2005
This is going to hurt you more than it's going to hurt me: The House Republicans' plan for Katrina: Cut funding for the Third World, energy conservation and contraception. Punish PBS fans, art lovers and graduate students.; Tim Grieve Sep 22, 2005
Better than any telethon: Supporters of NPR and PBS score a victory against conservative Republicans aiming to pare down the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.; Aaron Kinney Jun 23, 2005
Channeling the right: There's mounting evidence that the man in charge of public broadcasting is on a conservative crusade.; By Paul McLeary Jun 23, 2005
A pink slip for Ken Tomlinson?: Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer call on Bush to fire the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.; Tim Grieve Jun 21, 2005
The GOP war on PBS and NPR: Republicans on a House subcommittee move to eliminate all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.; Eric Boehlert Jun 10, 2005
"Fair and balanced" -- the McCarthy way: CPB head Kenneth Tomlinson, who is leading a jihad against "liberal bias" in public broadcasting, and one of his two new ombudsmen both worked for the late Fulton Lewis, a reactionary radio personality associated with Sen. Joe McCarthy.; By Eric Boehlert May 26, 2005
Making PBS as "fair and balanced" as Fox: Critics blast the CPB's unprecedented move to hire competing, "Crossfire"-style ombudsmen, saying the move is intended to make public broadcasting toe a right-wing line.; By Eric Boehlert May 17, 2005

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