Selected press items from the period Friday, August 15 through Thursday, August 21.

The Toronto Globe and Mail profiles Aaron Brown, touts Iraqi Exodus, and quotes Brown’s appraisal of his Wide Angle gig: “When you do television, you have this kind of mythical belief that the people sitting at home are fully dressed, sober and paying attention and taking notes,” he said. “I finally found a place where they are, so that’s pretty damn cool.” Wide Angle: Iraqi Exodus is highlighted by the New York Times and many others. The program is “. . . a first-rate look at one of the lesser-recognized problems associated with the war in Iraq: the flight of more than 2 million Iraqis from their homeland,” says the LA Times. Brown’s interview on Bloomberg TV’s Night Talk can be seen here:

The digital switchover means New Yorkers will get dozens more channels for free, according to a cover story in AM New York, which quotes Thirteen/WNET’s Kent Steele.

Reel 13 indie film ‘Cult of Sincerity’ is on the cover of Brooklyn Paper‘s Arts & Entertainment section.

“PBS’ American Masters has already won five Emmys for nonfiction series and now collects its eighth nomination,” says Variety. “Chronicling the lives of American icons such as folk legend Pete Seeger, novelist Zora Neale Hurston and Motown great Marvin Gaye last season, the program never fails to impress voters.”

“V-me will present nightly primetime coverage of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions as part of its PARTICIPA 2008,” says Cynopsis.

Josh Marshall gave a nod to Bill Moyers Journal’s interview with Andrew Bacevich at Talking Points Memo, and Andrew Sullivan’s blog, The Daily Dish, at the Atlantic, honored it with the “Quote of the Day” not once, but twice.