Viewers Like Us:

Restoring the public in public television

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Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1

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Death by a Thousand Cuts

“I’m talking about it because I think it’s important for people to know the little ‘death by a thousand cuts’ that are happening. I don’t think that appeasement is the way to maintain our free speech rights and our democracy.” – Alicia Sams

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Episode 4: Left in the Dark

“Making some noise can make a difference, and I hope that would be encouraging to people who are afraid, especially in this political climate.” - Jane M. Wagner

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Episode 3: What Are We Preserving?

“The idea of preemptively censoring, before any executive order or decision — not only do you feel violated, but I felt I could not go to any institution for potential protection or support for my independent voice.” - Michèle Stephenson

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GBH Headquarters

Episode 2: The Upside Down

“I don't know if there's anything in history that we've ever seen in civic life [like] what we're seeing. But I do know, like Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, we have to speak up…we have to be willing to put ourselves on the line. At the very least, I get to use my voice and put some things on the line.” - Chris Hastings, president and chief executive officer of WXXI Public Media in Rochester, NY; former executive producer and editor-in-chief of GBH’s WORLD Channel in Boston

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Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse! 

Episode 1: Death by a Thousand Cuts

“I'm talking about it because I think it's important for people to know the little ‘death by a thousand cuts’ that are happening. I don't think that appeasement is the way to maintain our free speech rights and our democracy.” - Alicia Sams

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Viewers Like Us, a co-production of filmmaker Grace Lee and Studiotobe, documents the growing disconnect between PBS’s founding mission and the increasingly diverse public it was created to serve.

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We envision Viewers Like Us as movement-building through storytelling. In that spirit, we want to gather stories from you—the public—about your experiences, as media makers and audiences, with PBS over the years.

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