Category Archives: Television

Flight 93

A few days ago I watched the Discovery Channel’s “documentary” The Flight That Fought Back about Flight 93, the plane that terrorists crashed into a Pennsylvania field. It consisted mostly of interviews with family members with cuts to brief re-enactments. Considering its genre and subject, the show did a fairly good job of steering away [...]

Peter Jennings, 1938-2005

With the death of Peter Jennings last night and the retirement of Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, the age of the national television anchor has ended. Requiescat in pace.