16-04-2010, 07:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 16-04-2010, 07:51 PM by Jan Klimkowski.)
David Guyatt Wrote:Nice to see the "Beeb" make it on both the honour and dishonour roll. "Fair and balanced" reporting is such an important concept these days.
Yup. Although I would add that the "Honour" vote goes to The Power of Nightmares, made by Adam Curtis.
Curtis is an auteur and is framed as such by BBC senior management. Whilst I'm glad that the Beeb funds Curtis' always intelligent and provocative films, the BBC's get out clause is precisely his auteur status.
Put simply, BBC management can argue that Curtis' films are "authored", representing an argument made by an individual, and therefore do not have to "fair and balanced". And that the BBC would in no way endorse Curtis' theories.
Curtis is the officially tolerated court jester. Or maverick.
Whereas the film on the "Dishonour" list, the risible "9/11: The Conspiracy Files", most definitely represents the BBC's official "fair and balanced" position, and like every film in that series was commissioned to debunk "conspiracy theories" and ridicule those who believe in them.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war