Comments on: Don’t Destroy Your TV: There’s Still PBS. http://telesle.net/blog/2006/02/08/dont-destroy-your-tv-theres-still-pbs/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:45:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tim Lesle http://telesle.net/blog/2006/02/08/dont-destroy-your-tv-theres-still-pbs/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Tim Lesle Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:52:57 +0000 http://telesle.net/blog/?p=17#comment-14 Yes, <a HREF="http://www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/98october/willlyman.htm" REL="nofollow">Will Lyman</a>, he's the narrator. Just wanted to make sure that was written down. <br/><br/>As for last night's episode of Frontline, I half-watched it while checking e-mail after returning from a short trip. I will probably have to tune in to the Web site for a closer viewing. Alas, many of the problems from meth stem, in large part, from the behavior of corporations. Typical. Yes, Will Lyman, he’s the narrator. Just wanted to make sure that was written down.

As for last night’s episode of Frontline, I half-watched it while checking e-mail after returning from a short trip. I will probably have to tune in to the Web site for a closer viewing. Alas, many of the problems from meth stem, in large part, from the behavior of corporations. Typical.

]]> By: will http://telesle.net/blog/2006/02/08/dont-destroy-your-tv-theres-still-pbs/comment-page-1/#comment-12 will Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:42:12 +0000 http://telesle.net/blog/?p=17#comment-12 Tonight's Frontline will be "America's Addiction to Meth." This should be interesting, in part because you have to wonder if that addiction and the proliferation of meth labs purportedly feeding it haven't been overstated by a media perhaps feeding the public addiction for sensationalistic accounts of the next big drug craze. Ecstasy isn't hot anymore, crack is long forgotten, etc. And why not, since meth has given rise to some harrowing images and stories. Take for example night video shot by farmers of would-be meth cooks burning the living daylights out of their hands and faces while trying to siphon off methane, a critical lab ingredient, from holding tanks with tricky valves. Or prison dentists' account of "meth mouth" as an increasingly common dental condition among the incarcerated. At any rate, yes, Frontline, by all means. As good as it is, it would be worth tuning in just to hear the narrator, whose voice somehow invests every subject with the drama and historical gravity of the first moon walk. Tonight’s Frontline will be “America’s Addiction to Meth.” This should be interesting, in part because you have to wonder if that addiction and the proliferation of meth labs purportedly feeding it haven’t been overstated by a media perhaps feeding the public addiction for sensationalistic accounts of the next big drug craze. Ecstasy isn’t hot anymore, crack is long forgotten, etc. And why not, since meth has given rise to some harrowing images and stories. Take for example night video shot by farmers of would-be meth cooks burning the living daylights out of their hands and faces while trying to siphon off methane, a critical lab ingredient, from holding tanks with tricky valves. Or prison dentists’ account of “meth mouth” as an increasingly common dental condition among the incarcerated. At any rate, yes, Frontline, by all means. As good as it is, it would be worth tuning in just to hear the narrator, whose voice somehow invests every subject with the drama and historical gravity of the first moon walk.

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