Like so many others, I have, during the past year, thought about
Charlottesville, Virginia a great deal. The events of August, 2017--a
year ago today--were, are, heartrending. (I lived in Charlottesville--a
vibrant and beautiful city--from the spring of 1995 until the start of
2001.)
Last week, PBS's Frontline program featured a very good
documentary about Charlottesville--and about the neo-Nazis and white
supremacists who descended upon the city.
The PBS report, a joint effort by Frontline and the journalistic organization ProPublica, was titled Documenting Hate: Charlottesville. Unlike other Frontline
programs I have seen, over time--programs presided over by an unseen
narrator--the Charlottesville documentary featured an on-camera
correspondent, ProPublica's A.C. Thompson. Mr. Thompson also served as
one of the program's producers.
The program can be seen at this link:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/documenting-hate-charlottesville/
