Jan
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Watching History, Nancy Dubuc
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If I had cable, the History channel is probably what would suck most of my time. According to Matea Gold’s January 3 article in the LA Times, it looks like History has been making some big changes.
Three years ago, then 38-year old Nancy Dubuc took over as president of the network and has been breathing new life into an old story ever since. In addition to championing new reality-type shows–she prefers to call reality TV “the next iteration of documentary storytelling”–Dubuc is also behind the forthcoming “America: The Story of Us” and “The People Speak,” a series based on Howard Zinn’s thoroughly incriminating book, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present.
I love it when established organizations take big risks like this. Not only is Nancy Dubac young, she doesn’t have the typical background you’d expect a History president would have. She has a minor in History and “cheerfully confesses she wishes she had paid more attention in class.”
Looks like I’ll be paying more attention to History–and Nancy Dubac–in the future.
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The History Channel. Yes!
Every time I’m at someone’s house with cable and I’ve got the remote there’s a very real danger of losing an entire afternoon to whatever black and white footage w/ voiceover is playing on the History Channel. It’s a good thing I don’t have cable.