My wife and I watched the new episode of Frontline - “Sex Slaves”, which was a gut wrenching look at the global slave trade in women. One man has his wife was kidnapped by a friend and sold into slavery in Turkey. Frontline follows him in his undercover quest to find her, and reports on some other personal stories as well.
Whatever problems you think you have, if you are reading this I can virtually guarantee that they don’t hold a candle to what these people face.
Frontline is an excellent show. Their website is also quite good. While some PBS material is heavily politically biased, some shows play it down the middle, and the others are biased in an intelligent and overt way, like an editorial. If you’ve never seen it, you should catch an episode. The journalistic depth is 10x above what you get from the Networks, Fox, CNN, etc.
Other excellent Frontline episodes:
And what has to be one of my all-time favorite episode of anything on TV:
If you watch one Frontline episode, watch this one. I was very emotional by the end. It’s the antidote to the nonsense of Fahrenheit 9/11, and provides a fresh look at how our governenment failed to ‘connect the dots’.
Full Disclosure: I am a basic cable subscriber with a Tivo that is nearly 100% PBS material, 70% of which is for my kids. So yeah, I like PBS.
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