King Corn to Air on PBS Tonight
Did you miss King Corn at the Harris Theater? Don’t worry, here’s your chance to see the movie on the small screen! It will air on PBS’s Independent Lens. In Pittsburgh, the first airing will be tonight, April 15, at 10 PM on WQED, with encore presentations at 3:00 AM and 4:30 AM on April 17, with additional options if you have HD.
If you live outside of Pittsburgh, follow this link to get information about when it will air on your local PBS station.
King Corn is an entertaining way to get a volume of information about the dysfunctional government subsidy program that rewards farmers for growing more corn than we can possibly eat, following much of the same information presented in Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, but in video format, using an acre plot in Iowa as a case study of how the system works and investigations into why and how it came to be.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
[...] Jenn and I have been meaning to see the movie King Corn since we first heard about it, but haven’t been able to make it work. Jesse at Corduroy Orange just posted that it will be airing on PBS! You can check for local listings here. [...]