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  1. For over 25 years, televised Fred Friendly Seminars have added a unique dimension to public affairs programming on PBS. Exploring urgent social and public policy issues as wide-ranging as affirmative action, end-of-life care, national energy policy, and bioterrorism, the Seminars invite PBS viewers to struggle with gripping dilemmas drawn from real scenarios facing Americans and determine what ...

  2. Fred W. Friendly. Fred W. Friendly (born Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer, October 30, 1915 – March 3, 1998) was a president of CBS News and the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now. He originated the concept of public-access television cable TV channels.

  3. The Fred Friendly Seminars are a prestigious public affairs series on PBS started by Fred Friendly, the distinguished broadcast journalist. Since they began on television in 1984, the Seminars ...

  4. Fred Friendly is a towering figure in the history of broadcast news. He joined with Edward R. Murrow to take on Senator Joseph McCarthy in their weekly program, See It Now. Later, as executive ...

  5. Over twenty years ago, television news pioneer Fred W. Friendly brought to public television a unique series of programs in which participants were forced to put their principles to the test in ...

  6. George Clooney stars as Fred Friendly in a film that he also directed, Good Night, ... This two-part In the Balance series explores some very hard choices facing leaders trying to prevent, prepare ...

  7. Fred Friendly died on March 3, 1998, but the series continues to carry on his work. Lectures curated around the PBS series In the Balance, which brings together people in power to confront some of the greatest dilemmas of our time. Over twenty years ago, television news pioneer Fred W. Friendly brought to public television a unique series of ...

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