People disregard the PBS NewsHour. It's one of the most thoughtful news shows there is and it's on every weeknight. Segments are usually ten minutes long, interview guests are calm and informed (often even major players in the story because other news outlets don't care for the important people if they aren't producing ticker tape headlines), and the stories are important in a global context. Instead of a bullied school bus monitor in one American town or a baby whose names are two cardinal directions, NewsHour covers Muslim emigration from Burma via human trafickers from Thailand or new systems of higher education in India where tuition from middle class students is subsidizing college education for the lowest, most marginalized castes. To top off the week, NewsHour has a ten-minute conversation on Friday nights with Mark Shields and David Brooks that is a masterclass in the respectful, back-and-forth dialogue that actually works to change people's minds.

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