#NewsHour

[glfc2112]

"Canvas" is the arts and culture series for PBS NewsHour.  The way they presented the story and the questions asked is among the best I've seen / heard.  The approach is magnificent.  Geddy is well spoken and gave thoughtful answers. A definite must watch.

[barisalnews]

বরিশাল বিভাগ ও বরিশাল জেলা

বরিশাল বাংলাদেশের দক্ষিণাঞ্চলের একটি প্রধান শহর। এটি বরিশাল বিভাগের অন্তর্গত ও একই সাথে জেলা ও বিভাগীয় সদর দপ্তর। কীর্তনখোলা নদীর তীরে মোগল আমলে স্থাপিত লবণচৌকি গিরদে বন্দর কে কেন্দ্র করে এ শহর গড়ে ওঠে ও ১৮০১ সালে বরিশালে তৎকালীন বাকেরগঞ্জ জেলার সদর দপ্তর স্থাপিত হলে, শহর হিসেবে এর ব্যাপক গুরুত্ব বাড়ে। দেশের খাদ্যশস্য উৎপাদনের একটি মূল উৎস এই বৃহত্তর বরিশাল। বরিশালে একটি নদীবন্দর রয়েছে যেটি দেশের অন্যতম প্রাচীন, দ্বিতীয় বৃহত্তম ও গুরুত্বপূর্ণ একটি নদীবন্দর। ডিজিটাল জনশুমারী ও গৃহগণনা-২০২২ অনুযায়ী বরিশাল আয়তনে দেশের ১০ম এবং জনসংখ্যায় ১২তম বৃহত্তর মহানগর।

[travsd]

R.I.P. Robert McNeil

PBS’s Robert McNeil (1931-2024) passed away back on April 12. On the Newshour, Jim Lehrer, like most of McNeil’s friends and colleagues, used to call him “Robin”, but I’ll refrain from taking that liberty. I don’t usually memorialize straight-up news reporters here, but I have a couple of reasons for fudging it in this case. One is McNeil’s nine part educational tv series The Story of English…

[newshourai]

Fairy Dreams: A Hillside Adventure

[nonesuchrecords]

"I tend to really focus on the beauty that still exists," Haitian-American singer and composer Nathalie Joachim tells BBC World Service's Newshour about her new album, Ki moun ou ye. "While it's very easy to disregard the story of Haitian people as one of struggle and heartbreak and poverty, there are also so many incredible people living in Haiti who also care very deeply about each other, care very deeply about the country, care very deeply for their communities and for themselves." You can hear the episode here.

[joe-england]

Prison inmates struggle to survive unrelenting heat without air conditio...

[lenbryant]

B&C on the Supremes' bigoted rulings.

[syedmukhor]

Asian News (Asian TV Bangladesh)

Date: 26th April, 2023 (Wednesday)

Detailed news of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to Japan directly.

সরাসরি প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনার জাপান সফরের বিস্তারিত খবর।

[mundo-misterio]

PBS NewsHour: Judy Woodruff dejará la serie después de 19 años – Programas de TV cancelados + renovados

PBS NewsHour: Judy Woodruff dejará la serie después de 19 años – Programas de TV cancelados + renovados

por Regina Ávalos, 13 de noviembre de 2022 PBS: NewsHour pierde pie a finales de año. Judy Woodruff deja la serie de noticias vespertinas después de 19 años en el programa. No se ha hecho ningún anuncio oficial sobre quién reemplazará al presentador de mucho tiempo, pero los informes indican que Amna Nawaz y Geoff Bennett podrían reemplazar a Woodruff en el cargo. Bennett actualmente presenta…

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[glfc2112]

From PBS NewsHour, Geddy answers eight rapid fire questions.  From baseball, robots, music, and other stuff.  Interesting to here answers in this format.

[barisalnews]

বরিশাল বিভাগ ও বরিশাল জেলা

https://barisalsangbad.com/14466

বরিশাল বাংলাদেশের দক্ষিণাঞ্চলের একটি প্রধান শহর। এটি বরিশাল বিভাগের অন্তর্গত ও একই সাথে জেলা ও বিভাগীয় সদর দপ্তর। কীর্তনখোলা নদীর তীরে মোগল আমলে স্থাপিত লবণচৌকি গিরদে বন্দর কে কেন্দ্র করে এ শহর গড়ে ওঠে ও ১৮০১ সালে বরিশালে তৎকালীন বাকেরগঞ্জ জেলার সদর দপ্তর স্থাপিত হলে, শহর হিসেবে এর ব্যাপক গুরুত্ব বাড়ে। দেশের খাদ্যশস্য উৎপাদনের একটি মূল উৎস এই বৃহত্তর বরিশাল। বরিশালে একটি নদীবন্দর রয়েছে যেটি দেশের অন্যতম প্রাচীন, দ্বিতীয় বৃহত্তম ও গুরুত্বপূর্ণ একটি নদীবন্দর। ডিজিটাল জনশুমারী ও গৃহগণনা-২০২২ অনুযায়ী বরিশাল আয়তনে দেশের ১০ম এবং জনসংখ্যায় ১২তম বৃহত্তর মহানগর।

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Some good examples of how Western media downplays attacks ON Israel:

In the opening minute of this NYT podcast, the NYT describes the ~180 bus-sized ballistic missiles launched at Israel by Iran as "...the largest missile attack on Israeli territory in the country's history."

Remove the bias, and it would instead acurrately be described as "the largest ballistic missile attack ever launched."

See the difference? Note how it changes the story?

PBS does the same thing:

Source

No, PBS. This was the largest missile attack ever launched, by any nation, against any nation.

I subscribe to the NYT. I'm a PBS member. This is profoundly disappointing, but no longer surprising.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ellie Quinland Houghtaling at TNR:

He may not be in office, but Donald Trump has been speaking with the powers that be about Israel’s war on Gaza—but it’s not in an effort to end the genocide. Instead, Trump has allegedly been talking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avert a cease-fire deal, fearing that doing so could help Vice President Kamala Harris win in November, according to PBS. “The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” said PBS’s Judy Woodruff Monday night. “So, I don’t know where—who knows whether that will come about or not, but I have to think that the Harris campaign would like for President Biden to do what presidents do, and that’s to work on that one.” It wasn’t immediately clear if Woodruff was referring to a new report, or an Axios story last week that cited two U.S. sources as claiming that Trump and Netanyahu had spoken on the phone about cease-fire and Gaza hostage talks. Netanyahu’s office and Trump both separately denied the report. “I did encourage him to get this over with. You want to get it over with fast. Have victory, get your victory, and get it over with. It has to stop, the killing has to stop,” Trump said at a New Jersey press conference on Thursday, referring to their meeting at Mar-a-Lago last month. But he also criticized cease-fire demands.

Donald Trump’s scheme to deny Kamala Harris and Joe Biden a chance to negotiate a ceasefire to end the war in Gaza for political reasons is a brazen violation of the Logan Act, as Trump has advised Israel Apartheid State PM Benjamin Netanyahu to NOT negotiate a ceasefire deal.

[nonesuchrecords]

Natalie Merchant was on BBC World Service Newshour to talk with Martin Vennard about her new album, Keep Your Courage, and more. You can hear their conversation at 45 minutes in here.

[lakecountylibrary]

It's Banned Books Week! Indiana made it on to PBS News last month. Guess why!

The video at the link is captioned and has a full text transcript. No paywall. It discusses a censorship bill passed in Indiana last year (2023).

A few salient highlights:

Leah Johnson: (Indiana author, You Should See Me in a Crown) It's not about the removal of books from shelves. It's about the removal of queer people from public life. It's about making queer people ashamed and afraid and driving them back into the closet.

Max: (Indiana teen) The first book that I read wasn't the reason I realized I was trans. It was just nice to see once I realized that, and I see that represented a book. So now that it's not being represented, it might be harder for people to realize or even just feel safe in their own identity, and that's my concern.

Jim Tomes: (Republican Indiana State Senator, co-author of the bill in question) Well, maybe they should worry. [...] Maybe it should have the chilling effect [...] I will say this, if you're defending these libraries and these books, you're on the wrong side of things.

-- The bill being discussed in this video went into effect last year after a drawn-out fight in the Indiana legislature. We wrote about the fight here. (Scroll down for the reblog with the final update)

We expect next year's legislative session to go further, introducing harsher restrictions and targeting public libraries and librarians in addition to schools and teachers. Keep an ear to the ground if you're in Indiana - your library may need your help in 2025.

Incidentally, and totally unrelated, have you checked your voter registration lately? Local elections matter!