FRONTLINE: the pbs documentary series not the flea medicine

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

i was just coming here to post - domestic terror ahoy, folks

just finished oklahoma city
the rescue testimonials & survivor stories are heartbreaking, crawling through all of that unstable wreckage must have been such a nightmare
it's still today shocking to see the scale of damage

& fkn McVeigh chaps me so much

on the one hand I don't hate that he was executed bcz jfc

but on the other hand that that smug pos says o yes i was the mastermind & goes out in a blaze of lethally injected glory makes me insane
that sic semper tyrannus shirt has always pissed me off too

ugh sorry

i have been avoiding watching the new one about the guy who eats fish every day and then reports on it.
has anyone seen it? the premise does not seem quite up to frontline standards :-/

yeah i gave that one a wide berth too

Haha fishing, berth, iswydt

unintentional i swear

We're going to have to dock you for that one.

don't they do a lot of episodes about farming though? this seems like the same wheelhouse. or are you just saying they're not given to telling... fish stories?

it seems more like a morgan spurlock pitch than a Frontline story imo

I was saying it seems kind of boring as research topics go. I'm sure it's better than I think it is and the conceit is just a trick to "lure the viewer"
If this were an article, I would not read it.

clickbaity kinda

That's what I meant by lure the viewer. I would not click on this if it weren't Frontline and I feel like it's gotta be better than I think it is. I was hoping someone had watched it/would vouch for it being more than as described above

I will watch it and report back, I love the ocean