Programs of Note: Friday, March 7

Thu, March 6, 2008
Posted in Program Highlights

WASHINGTON WEEK
7pm, Friday, March 7
For more than 30 years, WASHINGTON WEEK has delivered the most interesting conversations of the week and is the longest-running public affairs program on PBS, featuring host Gwen Ifill and a group of journalists participating in roundtable discussion of major news events.

NOW ON PBS
7:30pm, Friday, March 7
This series engages viewers by probing the most important issues facing democracy. At the helm is David Brancaccio, who joined NOW in the fall of 2003 after a decade as host of public radio’s MARKETPLACE. NOW pursues the stories overlooked by other public affairs broadcasts and travels the nation to shed light on the important public policy issues.

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL
8:00pm, Friday, March 7
Interviews and news analysis on a wide range of subjects, including politics, arts and culture, the media, the economy, and issues facing democracy.

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL: BUYING THE WAR
9:00pm, Friday, March 7
In the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, the government’s claims about weapons of mass destruction and terrorist ties to Saddam Hussein went mostly unchallenged by the media. Four years after “shock and awe,” how the government sold the war has been much examined, but a big question reaming: how and why did the press buy it? In this program, Bill Moyers and his team piece together the reporting that shows how the media were complicit in shaping the “public mind” toward the war, and ask what’s happened to the press’ role as skeptical “watchdog” over government power.