Sybil, who knows I’m a fan of PBS’s Frontline, sent me this zinger from Salon’s “Pushing PBS to the right” (subscription):
“It’s designed to get people’s attention and warn them not to do programming that will be questioned,” says David Fanning, executive producer of “Frontline,” PBS’s award-winning investigative series. “We ask hard questions to people in power. That’s anathema to some people in Washington these days.”
Read Lapin’s “Attacking Liberal Bias,” and enjoy tonight’s Frontline, “The New Asylums,” while you can. More:
There are nearly half a million mentally ill people serving time in America’s prisons and jails. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and ill-equipped gatekeepers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: are jails and prisons America’s new asylums? With exclusive and unprecedented access to prison therapy sessions, mental health treatment meetings, crisis wards, and prison disciplinary tribunals, FRONTLINE goes deep inside Ohio’s state prison system to present a searing exploration of the complex and growing topic of mental health behind bars and a moving portrait of the individuals at the center of this issue.
This web site will be available on Tuesday, May 10th at 9pm eastern time.
The Frontline tonight is one hour in length. Check your local PBS station for date and time.