Bad VooDoo’s War
On Frontline April 1, 9 p.m. Note ad at right.* I got a review tape, but didn’t have much time for watching TV this week, and was a little Frontlined out after 4.5 hours of utter crap last week anyway. Here’s a review by Blackfive, who liked it and suggests you watch. He knows some of the principals. Sounds interesting.
Experiences with Frontline’s war coverage have been spotty. I thought Frontline should be commended for taking a critical and very fair look at Haditha, rather than ignoring it like most of the war-bashers have now that the Iraq War’s defining atrocity has failed to live up to the hype. Last week, however, Frontline produced a first-class stinker.
* You’ll note in the comments at the last link that some critics think I shouldn’t take Frontline’s ad revenue and review Frontline’s work. Newspapers and magazines review books and movies they run ads for, and run ads for airlines and other businesses they write stories about. It’s occasionally an awkward relationship, but generally eased by the so-called Chinese wall between advertising and editorial at most professional publications. Bloggers seeking remuneration for this time-consuming pursuit don’t have the luxury of maintaining separate advertising and editorial staffs in all circumstances. So I disclose, and invite all critics to take note of the PayPal donation button at left. I’m more than happy to take their money, and kick the crap out of them, praise them, or ignore them on their own merits. The rest of you I will only praise.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:56 pm on Monday, March 31, 2008
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April 1st, 2008 at 2:03 am
I trust a blogger who discloses the possible conflict over a newspaper that wants to pretend it doesn’t exist.
I do think newspapers in general do a much better job of this than other media. The “Chinese wall” for television news and magazines would be better named the “Swiss wall” (it’s full of holes, get it?)
Ah, but there’s that special price the NYT gave moveon.org… but then, that was just politics, not some distasteful corporate advertising tie-in. That would *never* be tolerated!