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More essential reporting from @engber.bsky.social on PBS's censorship efforts

If you're a documentary filmmaker who has had films on PBS, please consider signing this open letter to the CEO of WGBH about the decision to end doc programming at WORLD docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

definitely the most annoying thing about this current era is the defeatism. so many people love to argue why there's no point like that's not a suicidal view. now is exactly the right time to be setting things into motion - you have nothing to lose, and people are looking for anything to grasp onto

The censorship of my film BREAK THE GAME is just the tip of the iceberg. Please read through this article to learn more about other troubling examples of PBS censoring films and supplemental content. www.documentary.org/online-featu...

We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.

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@janemwagner.bsky.social is absolutely right - PBS, CBS, ABC, WaPo - too many legacy media organizations are playing it safe, to the detriment of free speech and democracy

People are finding their courage. Everyone needs to stand up to these asshats because we all know the more you give in the more they will demand

Resistance is NOT futile

PBS also pulled the website for the film from PBS.org, at least until shortly after I'd reached out for comment and the film promptly reappeared on the schedule. Just to clarify, does this sequence of events also happen to at least one film in every season for a variety of reasons? 4/4

The film's director, @janemwagner.bsky.social, told me that POV's executive producers were explicit about the fact that her film had lost its premiere date for political reasons-- a fact they subsequently confirmed by email. 3/

So @amdocdocumentary.bsky.social has asked DOCNYC to provide "broader context" for its newsletter item about PBS's decision to pull the trans-themed film BREAK THE GAME from its scheduled slot on Apr. 7. 1/

My response to the @docnycfest.bsky.social Monday Memo "correction"

LETS GOOOOOOOOOO! PRESHOW STARTING IN LESS THAN 15 MINS! twitch.tv/trihex

one last post about this if you want to watch this film since this post got a lot of interest - it's having its Twitch premiere TONIGHT at 8pm EST on www.twitch.tv/trihex/ with Q&A with the filmmaker @janemwagner.bsky.social afterwards

Thank you Polygon for covering the Twitch stream of BREAK THE GAME and speaking with me abiut censorship, and the precarity of making independent films in today's political reality! Tune in tonight at 8:00 PM EST at twitch.tv/trihex

TONIGHT! See the film PBS didn't want you to see (that is, until @engber.bsky.social reached out for comment and they changed their mind)! @breakgamemovie will be screening for FREE tonight at 8:00 PM EST / 5:00 PM PST on Trihex's Twitch channel twitch.tv/trihex , followed by a Q+A & panel convo!

PBS censored my movie...

btw you can rent this film here: breakthegame.vhx.tv you can also watch it on Trihex's twitch channel on Monday at 8pm ET with Q&A after www.twitch.tv/trihex/ and you can contact PBS here and let them know how you feel about them censoring stories about trans people: www.pbs.org/about/about-...

Thank you for this piece. I’m neither a gamer or trans, but I’m looking forward to watching this documentary. I think it’s important for everyone to support independent filmmaking, no matter the content. @janemwagner.bsky.social

you can also contact PBS here and let them know how you feel about them censoring stories about trans people www.pbs.org/about/about-...

anyway it's just yet another story of trans people being thrown under the bus by people who are down to cowardly capitulate to fascists rather than fight for us. our stories can't be told - we have to be political pawns to be thrown away

PBS apparently was going to broadcast the Narcissa Wright documentary Break the Game and then abruptly pulled the documentary out of fear because it's a sympathetic documentary about a trans woman www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Netflix's epic Prince documentary — a nine-hour "masterpiece" — is, officially, dead. Banished by Prince's estate. Oscar-winning director Ezra Edelman, who made O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA, breaks his silence about the film that took ~5 years of his life. And what it all means: youtu.be/X93Y4ECBCeA?...