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For eight seasons, The Simpsons has presented biting satire as social commentary, and it still delivers humor...
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The Award-winning World of “The Simpsons”The Simpsons won a Peabody Award in 1996 for its first eight seasons, and this weekend’s upcoming 26th season premiere inspired this interview. Professor Jonathan Gray’s 2006 book Watching with “The Simpsons”: Television,
The Truth About ChristmasEdith Ann’s Christmas (Just Say Noël) has not become evergreen TV like A Charlie Brown Christmas, which has been popping up in prime time once or more every Yuletide since 1965. The 1996
Peabody Decades: Watching the DetectivesIn the realm of broadcasting, crime has always paid. Radio in the 1940s was roiling with private eye, cop and mystery shows. I Love a Mystery. Crime Club.
The Sitcom Comes Out: “Ellen” Makes Way for “Will & Grace”Entertainment has a way of nudging social change along, and comedy is a particularly powerful tool in this regard, as Jordan Peele pointed out at this year’s Peabody Award ceremony. Sometimes comedy does
Critical CartoonsBurka Avenger recently won a Peabody Award for an animated series which, while ostensibly created for children, contains messages of hope and empowerment for individuals of all ages. We wanted to shine a
Peabody Decades: Laughing MattersThough the Peabody Awards were conceived to encourage broadcasters to do more public service and high-minded shows, Peabody judges soon enough acknowledged that laughs mattered, too. After all, there was a world war
Dr. Jonathan Gray
Professor, Media and Cultural Studies, UW–MadisonJonathan Gray is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A
Peabody Awards Welcome Three New Board MembersThe University of Georgia has approved three new members of the George Foster Peabody Awards Board. Joining other distinguished experts who select electronic media’s most coveted prize are Martha Nelson of New York,
Complete 56th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon31 recipients of the 56th Annual Peabody Awards were presented with awards on May 12, 1997 at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel in New York City. The winners were chosen by the Peabody board as
‘Watching the Detectives’ tours TV’s pulp fictionIn the realm of broadcasting, crime has always paid. Radio in the 1940s was awash in private eye, cop and mystery show, among them I Love a Mystery, Crime Club, Sam
Peabody Decades: Toon in TomorrowThere was a recurring gag in the old Rocky and Bullwinkle TV series that you may recall. Everybody’s favorite screw-loose moose would appear in magician’s garb and say, “Hey, Rock, watch me pull
Sam Simon, aka Sam Simpson, RIPObituaries for Sam Simon, who died this week at age 59, are citing him foremost as co-creator of The Simpsons. That’s a bit of a misnomer. It doesn’t do Simon’s contribution full credit.
As I Die Laughing: The Faulknerian ‘Simpsons’What’s left to be said about The Simpsons as it begins its 27th season on Fox on Sunday, September 27? Well, we could talk about its literary kinship to the works of William
Peabody Media CenterPeabody recognizes socially conscious storytelling Each year, Peabody Awards recognize stories notable for their excellence as well as their resonance—whether it’s a warning to heed, injustice to address,
The Peabodys: Excellence and IndependenceNo prize for electronic media in the world is more coveted or respected than the George Foster Peabody Award, but it wouldn’t matter half as much if not for the independence it enjoys
Les Brown: Thinking Inside the BoxBy the time Les Brown published his first Encyclopedia of Television in 1978, he was already worthy of an entry of his own. Brown, who died Nov. 4 at the
- Personal Award: Elmer Davis for Best Reporting of the News
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Shockingly “Good”: The Good Wife’s TwistIn hindsight, you can see it coming a mile away. The opening tease of Sunday’s episode of CBS’s Peabody-winning drama The Good Wife focused primarily on Josh Charles’ character, litigator Will Gardner, not
The 1960s: Have another hitIf you remember the ’60s, you probably weren’t there. It’s an oft-quoted line, usually good for a laugh, that has been attributed to comedian-actor Robin Williams. But in reality (What
Watch History of the Peabodys and This Year’s Winners Announcement on “CBS THIS MORNING”CBS This Morning ran a short feature piece on the history of the Peabodys. Then this year’s emcee Ira Glass (host of This American Life) and Peabody Board Member Charlayne Hunter-Gault highlighted some
Waiting for the FloodThe floodgates are about to open. The deadline for entering calendar-year 2013 programs in the Peabody Awards competition is Wednesday, January 15, and if history is any indicator, 80 percent of the 1,000
Diversity in the Spotlight on SNL: From Pryor to ZamataSaturday Night Live, which won Peabody Awards in 1990 and 2008, has been at the center of public conversation about diversity. But the recent hiring of three African American women—Sasheer Zamata as a
Hill Street Blues: A Cop Show for the AgesOn Hill Street Blues, Sgt. Phil Esterhaus’ roll-call watchwords —“Hey, let’s be careful out there” – became a catch phrase for the nation. Luckily for viewers, the show’s creators paid no attention whatsoever
- Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
A spectacular realization of the potential of digital-age storytelling, Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek illustrates...
Read More » - The Leonard Lopate Show
For more than two decades, Leonard Lopate has quizzed and bantered live on the radio with architects...
Read More » - Inside the National Recording Registry
Each year, the Library of Congress chooses 25 recordings to be preserved as part of its National...
Read More » - Teen Contender: An Audio Diary of One Girl’s Fight Inside and Outside the Ring
Radio Diaries’ storytelling philosophy that “ordinary life is newsworthy” is beautifully represented in the story of 16-year-old...
Read More » - DL Hughley: The Endangered List
When this comedy special opens with its fake auditions for a Public Service Announcement viewers must wonder:...
Read More » - Investigating the Fire
On March 24, 2012, the Colorado State Forest Service set a controlled fire, also known as a...
Read More » - Joy in the Congo
This ebullient 60 Minutes segment is an ode to joy in an African republic known mainly for...
Read More » - Investigating the IRS
In an extensive series of reports, Bob Segall and the WTHR investigative news team uncovered massive fraud...
Read More » - Putin, Russia & The West
In a remarkable four-hour documentary, key portions of the history of the early 21st Century are presented...
Read More » - “Exposure: Banaz: An Honour Killing” and “Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile”
Presented by ITV’s documentary anthology Exposure, these films exhibited both sensitivity and unblinking honesty in examining two...
Read More » - Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
At one point, while training young artists who will participate in the Museum of Modern Art retrospective...
Read More » - The Loving Story
In Nancy Buirski’s beautifully spare documentary film, a fundamental truth about the history of segregation is revealed...
Read More » - MLK: The Assassination Tapes
This illuminating documentary was made possible by the foresight of some University of Memphis faculty members. Sensing...
Read More » - A Year in the Clouds
Once so inaccessible it was known as the Village of Darkness, Smangus, high in the mountains of...
Read More » - American Masters: Eames—The Architect and the Painter
Watching this documentary about Charles and Ray Eames, the first couple of American design, is like shaking...
Read More » - Surviving the Tsunami
In the opening sequence of this riveting documentary, viewers are looking across the bow of a Japanese...
Read More » - The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Inside Syria
In November 2011, as Syria slid inexorably toward civil war, CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward donned hijab-compliant...
Read More » - Al Jazeera’s Coverage of the Arab Awakening
From December 2010, when pro-democracy protests erupted in Tunisia, through the end of 2011, Al Jazeera was...
Read More » - Their Crime, Your Dime
When the KING-TV news department began an investigation of welfare fraud in their communities, the surprise was...
Read More » - Fareed Zakaria GPS: Interpretation and Commentary on Iran and The GPS Primetime Special: Restoring the American Dream—Fixing Education
Since 2008, Fareed Zakaria GPS has explored, examined and analyzed the “Global Public Square.” Zakaria has interviewed...
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