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Reminder - PBS Frontline Tonight

By Steve Hall

The Frontline episode, "Death by Fire," airs tonight at 8:00 pm (CDT), 9:00 pm (EDT.)  Check your local listings, as they say. The New York Times has a review, "Questioning the Guilt of an Executed Father," by Mike Hale. The report, ?Death by Fire,? on Tuesday night is polished, persuasive and restrained ? hallmarks of the ?Frontline? ethos. The graphics don?t drip blood; an anchor didn?t parachute in at the last minute to stand in front of a prison and read a few overheated lines. It?s tasteful muckraking. That might sound like faint praise, but in the current news climate, it?s one way to stand out. ?Death by Fire? is also well timed, in one sense: A Texas judge convened a hearing last week to examine whether the program?s subject, Cameron Todd Willingham, was wrongly convicted of murder in the 1991 fire in Corsicana, Tex...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 19, 2010 (boomark / email).