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New York Times
PBS Lashes Back
Last week, I wrote an article – “Something is Rotten at PBS” – about a slanted PBS Frontline documentary – “Sick Around America.”
Frontline hired former Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid to put together the documentary.
Reid did the reporting.
He turned over his interviews to the Frontline producers.
And they came back with a documentary Reid couldn’t agree with.
Frontline tried to get Reid to narrate the film anyway – whether he agreed with it or not.
Reid refused.
Reid and Frontline parted ways.
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