What a great program "NOW" on PBS still is.

[wurzel]

No wonder the Repukes want to close it down. The only program on TV that gives a labor point of view. Tonight it was a small victory for tomato pickers over Taco Bell. A penny a pound DOUBLES their wages! And the fight between nurses and "Arnie" in California. The nurses had a formidable spokeswoman who said, "unions are not dying in this country they are being murdered", and "Corporations have much more money and power than we do, and always will. But we will always have more people". Great stuff!

[Tux]

1. NOW is great

From what I heard. Local PBS' won't show it. Red states are truely anti-intellectual.

[wurzel]

6. You have to be kidding!

I thought it was shown nationwide. After all it is "Public". That still includes "red" states. People in "red" states will work for a living, don't they?

[Tux]

9. Shit

I double checked and it' not on here. They took it off the same day some AAR people were supposed to be on. Hell, I'm lucky they have BBC World News or The Woodwright's Shop or NOVA. Everyone knows they hate America.

[paineinthearse]

7. WTF????

Stations are publically owned. Time for you to get onto its board of directors!

[Hand]

2. Hear Hear!

Saw it, too--David Brancaccio could be Bill Moyers one day; he's good! And I've never seen Ahhhhnold look like more of a shallow, stupid, egotistical assclown than in the few seconds they showed him.

:applause: :toast:


BTW, Washington Week in Review was more abysmal than usual this week. Between David Broder, who seems to be pretty well hopelessly into his dotage, and that utterly tiresome Gwen Ifill... gagggh. :puke: Damn shame; that was a good program once.

[wurzel]

8. In the days of Tom Wicker and Max Frankel. N/T

[Bigmack]

10. Gwen has gone over....

to the Dark Side.

I'm too lazy to look, but one of the DU forums had a piece about how Rice and Ifil eat dinner together and seemed to be buddies.

[Warpy]

3. It didn't suffer much from Moyers's retirement

because his spirit is still very much guiding the content. It does suffer somewhat from being hacked down to half an hour, opposite hourlong shows on all networks, with a right wing half hour show after it.

As for Arnie, I think he's going to find out that nurses aren't a great group to piss off. Not only do we know how to HURT you, there are a lot of us and we've already reached the breaking point when it comes to getting shit on by administrators. Having some witless musclehead oveturn the first real reform in the country aimed at securing patient safety by mandating adequate staffing is something nurses will simply not put up with. It's going to be fun to watch the protests that I'm sure will escalate in pungency. Oh, and he'd better not choose to get sick.

Illness is still a consumer decision, right?

[wurzel]

4. Gotta love those nurses!

They are today one of the unions best hopes. They have social status and credibility, and are well educated. Something Arnie cannot control.

[tech3149]

5. Didn't see it

but it's one of the few things I'd turn my TV on for. Mostly the TV is only a "guilty pleasure" less now that Joan of Arcadia has been cancelled. I'll miss Moyers, but the show will carry on until Tomlinson has the power to shut it down.