FRONTLINE: the pbs documentary series not the flea medicine

The Frontline website has them all, or at least almost 200.

They also post transcripts for virtually all of them there too. It helps my students take notes while they watch.

I just watched a couple on MRSA-type infections in hospitals while doing repetitive work at work, but found them to be kind of thin... could not bring myself to watch the ISIS ones though, despite strong interest in the subject. Too grim. Which is silly of me, since, you know, Frontline.

Frontline also podcasts the audio of their episodes with the descriptive subliminals. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/podcasts/

ok i'm watching the one about supplements and the first lady they interview (Purity First) is so -- i don't even know. when she was asked about her husband's medical background, she said "he was a chemist in college and then he went to chiropractic school" which, let's be honest, does not suggest a promising future in chemistry. i look forward to the hucksterism/snake oil on display in this episode!!

also -- the podcasts are the most terrifying, no question, and audio ISIS might be insomnia material

"I've got these incredible bleeding scales on my head and I can't go to work"
--Purity First customer

wowowowowowow
i thought this one might be boring but no

there is a free PBS iOS/appleTV app that has at least the most recent season, maybe more

the one about supplements was so good
perfect for a lesson about snake oil or a casual hour of lol/wut?!

Ha, didn't even think to check if they had a website, thanks.

Two things --
1) Frontline is going bananas with the microcephaly photos/stories about the zika virus
2) I recently wondered if somewhere there is a porn parody called Frontloin but I am not googling for it from work or ever

Zika is total Frontline bait though, there's no way they wouldn't go all in on it!

frontloin would +/- = 'gunt' i guess?

Also I have a Pavlovian pizza-craving response to Frontline, even today.

not googling "gunt" either!

waiting for ZIKA ON ICE

I had my co-worker google frontloin; results 0% salacious. I asked him to do it because his search history is already guaranteed to get him fired if anyone happens to look at it. Mine will just show that my interests, while work-appropriate, are worryingly obsessive.

hahaha
good move

seriously the one about supplements is unintentionally hilarious, really recommend for lighter fare

I am absolutely going to watch that this afternoon while taping receipts!

the one about fantasy gambling was good from what i saw of it (only watched half) not a heavy topic, but somewhat interesting insight into what happens among groups of friends that i will likely (hopefully) never be a part of. the reporter was fun to watch too. trip to curaçao, don't mind if i do…

also saw the one about heroin. very thorough and focused, informative. depressing.

received an email from frontline today with subj head: In Case You Missed It: Heroin, Pot, Zika, and South Sudan and i loled :-/

lol thanks frontline

I have never seen this tech before, but it is incredible:

https://www.facebook.com/frontline/videos?fref=photo

Basically allows a totally immersive view of the sites described in the doc in real time. Like, the Chernobyl one, as they narrate you view through your camera and can totally look around, down, up, etc. Really quite amazing, and the first of this stuff that feels game changing to me.

wow, that's cool! my students are working on their frontline final papers again. one of them has a pretty severe speech impediment and he struggles to talk in class, but he could not contain himself about the kids and the bats in the doc about ebola. he uses a lot of gesturing to communicate and he re-enacted the whole bat story when we were brainstorming earlier this week. it was pretty great.

maybe i'll show them the chernobyl site if the computers can handle it...

I think you're actually supposed to watch on your phone/device! We were watching in the kitchen this morning, walking around, turning around, etc. It was fascinating

Oh ok that's perfect bc most of them have phones even though our school computers are crappy.

The one about flood insurance really digs into the disgusting profit margins of government-backed insurance companies thanks to relentless questioning from reporter Laura Sullivan. I also found it amusing how lovingly the camera followed her in the b-roll (?). She's always wearing fabulous boots.

The one about the birth of ISIS was also really good.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjZERszWYAECR-f.jpg

flood insurance one was good. laura sullivan is one of the people on npr i like. awesome voice. i feel like a frequent poster on npr threads to talk about npr people i hate so i have to say something positive.

Liked the Flood Insurance one quite a bit. I've always liked Laura Sullivan on NPR - A+ side-eye she gives the national flood insurance program director when he admits that he's never looked at insurance company profit structure.

In spite of feeling pretty mentally/emotionally strong atm, I don't think I can handle BEING MORTAL
Did anyone watch it?

will there be trigger warnings before a flurry of images of college-age donald trump flood the airwaves? watch and see!
http://apps.frontline.org/clinton-trump-keys-to-their-characters/#home

you posting that link is a microaggression, prepare for my followers to mob you

jk i will hella watch that! Can't tell what the air date is...?

looks like tuesday 9/27
i'll start to prep my fallout shelter

this picture is so disgusting
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsgA_7MXYAEoDtC.jpg:large

Anyone watching the episode on tonight, Trump & Clinton?

I watched it after it aired a few weeks ago, found it illuminating & clear.

Divided States Of America is worth all four hours to watch. You never see the car rushing towards the cliff when it's slow motion and you're in it.

i watched it over the weekend. it was good but jeez talk about staring into the abyss

Yeah Divided States was like watching a highlight reel of everything shitty that has happened since 2008, like condensed poisoned soup. Still worth it to be reminded in detail how we got here.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1tFDsL_mwBY/maxresdefault.jpg

The first hour is practically political Guns Of August. You know what's going to happen and each time there's an inevitable escalation I'm shouting "ugh no! don't do it!" when it eventually turns to shit. I can't help but notice just how invisible and/or ineffective the Democratic party (as establishment, brand, political force, or whatever you want to define it) is - there's four hours and barely a peep from them.

Great episode, would totally use it in that alternative universe where I'm a sociology professor and teaching a class on demographic failure.

Yeah Divided States was like watching a highlight reel of everything shitty that has happened since 2008, like condensed poisoned soup. Still worth it to be reminded in detail how we got here.

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera),

otm. i just finished the first 2 hours. it is very good so far. it's the frontline standard of quality that we've all come to expect.

i was kind of surprised that i already knew most of the details. i suppose the obama presidency was the first one that i followed very closely from beginning to end. i didn't really become politically conscious until the invasion of iraq, and even then i spent most of the rest of the gwb years burblin' around in the haze of early 20s amoeba goo. but i remember the events covered in the divided states of america quite vividly.

i had sort of forgotten about ben nelson, though. god what a fucking asshole

i had forgotten about henry paulson
the luxury of forgetting is a luxury we no longer have now that there is a rabid moneybeast, a Puritan, and a Nazi in the WH :(

really looking forward to watching divided states. can't believe i've never noticed this thread before, incredible title

"Divided States" was excellent. Anyone watch "Trump's Road To the White House"? Recap of the dire and destructive methods Trump employed to become President.

i couldnt do it

I watched half and stopped. Maybe someday but not yet.

yeah i was hyped for divided states but the opener was all the palin business and i had to can it

Hearing her voice again is a chore of the highest magnitude.

not exactly frontline, but American Experience is doing a few documentaries about right-wing extremism: Oklahoma City this week and Ruby Ridge next