The numbers pale in comparison to the 9/11 terror attacks — 270 people killed, some in midair aboard Pan Am Flight 103 and some on the ground, in the then quiet, bucolic town of Lockerbie, Scotland...

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Even though TV is a visual medium, the men and women behind the visuals are often shunted aside in the annual rush to anoint TV’s best...

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HOW INFOTAINMENT WON THE CULTURE WARS: OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE PBS’S ‘FRONTLINE’ By Alex Strachan

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