MetaTalk posts tagged with frontline

Anyone want to do a FRONTLINE FPP?

Mayor Curley — Wed, 04 May 2011 06:44:54 -0800

It's gauche to ask, but might anyone be interested in doing an FPP on last night's episode of FRONTLINE? The show has interesting analysis from two top al Qaeda experts, Steve Coll and Peter Bergen and two relevant magazine pieces about the current state of counter-terrorism and the position of some current al Qaeda militants. The site has some further information about the effectiveness of unmanned drones and the provenance of insurgents' weapons in Afghanistan. I think it's informative and insightful and would make a decent FPP, and I'm really only suggesting it because I'm so curious and and impatient to hear what the Metafilter community's take on it is. NOTE: let's avoid discussing the news/information contained in the show in this thread. Obviously, I'm asking someone to consider a post that I'm not allowed to make because of my relationship to the source, but I am absolutely not trying to start an actual discussion of the show via loophole. And I reiterate that I am only asking because I personally want to see a discussion from my favorite online community, not because I want to promote the episode-- that's not my job and this episode is doing fine on its own. (and mods, I thought about this and reasoned that it's probably okay to do, but if it's not I totally get it and apologize.)

A METAFILTER EXCLUSIVE!

Mayor Curley — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:14:21 -0800

Heads up, Metafilter FRONTLINE fans. The latest site, The War Briefing is up three hours early and you can watch the show before it actually airs tonight. And you are the first people to know about it! Only vaguely Metafilter-related, I know, but lots of people here like FRONTLINE and I think it's cool to be able to see the show before it's broadcast. I can't post stuff about it to the front page, but I wanted people to have a chance to see it before it airs.

MetaFilter - now As Seen On TV

y2karl — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:48:07 -0800

In Part III What's Happening To The News of Frontline's four part series News War, there came, during one of several discussions of the impact of the internet upon the news, a montage of screenshots of various websites, weblogs and community weblogs. MetaFilter was one of them. I seen it! Now should that be a little Woot! worthy or what?