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Need to Know
| Website: | http://www.pbs.org/needtoknow |
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| Next Airing: | Fri, Feb 24th, 2012 at 7:30 PM on KUED-HD |
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NEED TO KNOW is an integrated broadcast and online current affairs project, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to newsgathering and reporting. It breaks through the limitations of the broadcast schedule by means of a web-based production model that empowers audiences to "tune in" anytime and anywhere. A cross-media initiative built around a wide community of journalists and producers, with input from an engaged audience, NEED TO KNOW covers five primary beats: the economy; the environment and energy; health; security; and culture. Stories, interviews, blogs and photo features are continually added to and updated online, with the production teams inviting interaction and input from online readers and users who are on the lookout for the latest information on a given subject. Each week's online story development culminates in the weekly broadcast, curated from the week's reporting by the various beat teams. The broadcast features documentary-style field reports, both domestic and international, short features and studio-based interviews and conversation to complement and advance the produced reports.
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JEFF GREENFIELD ANCHORS. Nearly half a century after the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act, African-Americans throughout the deep south still find themselves with little real power. In a report from South Carolina on the eve of the GOP primary there, anchor Jeff Greenfield describes how the sharp rise in the number of black state lawmakers creates the misimpression of greater black power. In fact, the state's 70 percent white population now votes overwhelmingly Republican, leaving the state's 30 percent black population, which still leans very heavily Democratic, as part of a permanent political minority. Redistricting also has led to more "majority minority" districts, creating more safe black seats but eroding black power elsewhere in the state. Greenfield also interviews two of the state's leading political analysts about the GOP presidential primary. Need to Know's "American Voices" essay features Bernard Lafayette, a prominent civil rights leader from the 1960s who reflects on the struggle for black voting rights then and what he believes are organized efforts to undo them now.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 1/20/2012 to 1/19/2013 -
RAY SUAREZ ANCHORS In the monthly "Help Wanted" special tied to the release of the national unemployment report, "Need to Know" visits Nevada on the eve of the Republican presidential caucuses and reports on the state's enduring foreclosure problem. Nevada has had the nation's highest foreclosure rate for more than four years. The show interviews the state's attorney general and examines why federal programs designed to alleviate the problem haven't had greater impact. "Need to Know" also looks at Nevada's efforts to improve high-tech job training to attract jobs to the state. In "American Voices," Los Angeles essayist Marcos Villatoro argues that work creates happiness and says FDR's decision to create the Civilian Conservation Corps saved a generation of unemployed Americans, including his own father.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 2/3/2012 to 2/2/2013 -
Sexual Politics
MARIA HINOJOSA ANCHORS. Need to Know looks at "Sexual Politics" -- how the Republican candidates' opposition to gay marriage will affect the outcome of the nomination fight and the general election. David Brody, political correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network, is interviewed. Christine Quinn, speaker of the New York City Council, offers her ideas about how gays can achieve equality. And Need to Know correspondent Mona Iskander reports from Minneapolis about a model program designed to rescue gay teens who have been rejected by their families and become homeless.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 1/13/2012 to 1/12/2013