The WELL: inkwell.vue.206: David Shenk: "The Forgetting"

#137: David Gans (tnf) Wed 7 Jul 04 09:08

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:08:00 PDT

There's a story in a public-broadcasting trade publication, CURRENT, about the success of a film based on"The Forgetting":

Proud memory: The Forgetting

By Steve Behrens

> Strange how a harrowing program about a nightmare disease can become a > major feel-good event for public TV.

> Though some viewers said they didn't like seeing the difficult realities of > The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's and its stories of three families > and medical researchers struggling with Alzheimer's disease, many more, > paradoxically, thanked public TV for showing it to them in January.

> Along with the bad news, the program brought viewers some relief-- > information about a disease they didn't understand and hope about the help > they didn't know they could get.

> "The more information that's out there, the more people can say, 'Grandma > was really mean today, but that's the Alzheimer's talking,'" says Chris > Siefert, outreach director at Montana PBS in Bozeman.

http://current.org/outreach/outreach0411forgetting.shtml [Read entire topic]

#136: Cynthia Dyer-Bennet (cdb) Wed 9 Jun 04 15:15

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:15:00 PDT

Thanks for posting the pointer, David. [Read entire topic]

#135: Zen Cohen (tinymonster) Wed 9 Jun 04 09:54

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:54:00 PDT

I'll bet it will get an added surge of interest, coming as it is on the heels of Mr. Reagan's death. [Read entire topic]

#134: David Gans (tnf) Wed 9 Jun 04 09:33

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:33:00 PDT

From David Shenk:

Hey everyone,

Thought you might like to know that PBS's "The Forgetting" is re-airing nationally on Wednesday, June 16. To find out what time(s) in your area, go to: http://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/about/index.html

Also, I've finally put together a decent website: http://www.davidshenk.com

best,

David [Read entire topic]

#133: Angie Coiro (coiro) Fri 20 Feb 04 14:48

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:48:00 PST

He was wonderful!

That hour repeats tonight at ten. It's also available in our on-line archive at www.kqed.org/forum. [Read entire topic]

#132: Cynthia Dyer-Bennet (cdb) Fri 20 Feb 04 10:04

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:04:00 PST

Break a lip, David! [Read entire topic]

#131: Gail Williams (gail) Thu 19 Feb 04 17:58

Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:58:00 PST

Wow, how cool! [Read entire topic]

#130: Angie Coiro (coiro) Thu 19 Feb 04 17:51

Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:51:00 PST

David Shenk is one of my guests tomorrow on Friday Forum on KQED-FM, 10am. 88.5 fm in the Bay area; streaming live at www.kqed.org/forum. [Read entire topic]

#129: Teleological dyslexic (ceder) Mon 16 Feb 04 09:27

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:27:00 PST

Thank you for all the touching stories. (Tears are the hardest stains to get off of glasses.)

:| [Read entire topic]

#128: jessica (gobeyond) Mon 16 Feb 04 09:09

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:09:00 PST

Me, three. I especially appreciated the stark honesty from those of you who are caretakers. Eye opening and heart wrenching. Consider yourselves beamed upon. [Read entire topic]