Why you should watch more PBS
Thank God for PBS. Who are John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur, anyway? (Actually, they’re a fabulous grantmaking organization.) Seems like they fund all of public broadcasting these days, thanks to the administration’s current disdain for all things educational, progressive and unifying. Yay for the MacArthurs!
I saw two excellent documentaries on Point of View last night:
What I Want My Words To Do To You, about a women’s writing group in prison, and Chisolm ‘72: Unbought and Unbossed, a documentary about Shirley Chisolm’s run for the presidency in 1972.
Watch them! Shirley Chisolm is my new hero, seriously, and the producers of the prison doc are my new rolemodels. I really need to get a grant, one of these days, and go off to make The Great American Documentary about the 90,000 Burmese refugees Condy Rice is accepting into the U.S. in 2006. John D. and Catherine T., want to fund me? It’ll be awesome, I swear!