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http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Cultur...s-gives-a-vivid-docudrama-sheen-to-US-history
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042301898.html
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Knowing the History Channel, as the Hysterical Channel, for its' blatantly Partisan presentations, I am somewhat less than entusiastic about the upcoming series.
We shall see.
Amicus
“America: The Story of Us” debuts with a lead-in from no less a figure than President Obama, extolling the virtues that make up the American character and encouraging Americans to help shape the nation’s future through understanding a shared past.
. But clearly the producers know their target market – they plan to distribute the DVD to “every school and accredited college” in the United States and hope to develop a curriculum for teachers in partnership with the Library of Congress.
Whether or not the country’s teachers really need more civics class textbook materials based on a television show remains to be seen.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042301898.html
Other celebrities who pop up and quickly pop down again include Meryl Streep, Michael Douglas, Sheryl Crow, Colin Powell, Donald Trump, Buzz Aldrin, Martha Stewart, Al Sharpton (at his most dignified), current New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, current NBC News anchor Brian Williams and previous NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw.
Maybe everything that happens changes the course of something. Or maybe nothing that happens changes the course of anything. Simply saying "everything changed forever" is really a substitute for thinking, not an example of it, but then "America: The Story of Us" is basically a poor excuse for a documentary -- even if it succeeds on the superficial level of, say, a lava lamp.
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Knowing the History Channel, as the Hysterical Channel, for its' blatantly Partisan presentations, I am somewhat less than entusiastic about the upcoming series.
We shall see.
Amicus