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I received this notice in e-mail today, and thought it appropriate to pas on
to this newsgroup.

Steve Rhodes has also been producing the "Wildcat Words" events in teh San
Francisco Bay Area recently.  I actually had no idea he also worked on
television stuff.

From: StveRhodes@aol.com (Steve Rhodes)
To: matisse@well.sf.ca.us
Date: Sun, 22 May 94 05:24:56 EDT
Subject: Public Lands, Private Profits

   An hour long documentary I did research for while I was interning at the
Center For Investigative Reporting last year will be on Frontline on Tuesday,
May 24 on most of your local PBS station.  

  Public Lands, Private Profits is about attempts to reform the Mining Law of
1872.  It is more interesting than it sounds.  It focuses on gold mining
which is quite different these days than the image many have of the 49er with
a pick and a mule.  Now they grind up mountains and put it through cyanide to
extract the gold which can have some pretty severe enviromental consequences.

  Bruce Babbitt gave us a lot of access, so it provides a pretty intimate
look at his efforts to reform the laws, so that mining companies have to pay
royalties when they use federal land.  The portrait of the western Senators
he is battling against vividly illustrates why they would try to block his
nomination to the Supreme Court.  

  The producer Steve Talbott, who also produced the Du Pont award winning
Best Campaign That Money Can Buy and the GM doc I also worked on, says the
obstacles to passing reform again demonstrate the need for real campaign
finance reform.

 I won't see the final show until a screening Monday night at the Yuerba
Buena Center For the Arts, but the rough scenes I saw looked pretty good.
 Robert Krulwich, the correspondent who used to be on NPR and CBS and just
joined ABC news, is usually pretty amusing.  Check it out if you get a chance
and let me know what you think.

 It doesn't even conflict with the final Star Trek: NG episode (though it is
opposite the Coach anniversary special in some cities which isn't great in a
world where Coach gets a 16 rating and Frontline is lucky to get a 3.5).  In
other non-documentary fare, there will be a Japanese Anime festival on the
Sci Fi channel this week.

Steve



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