On September 24, 1986, William F. Buckley, Jr's FIRING LINE (a PBS program) ran Robert Conquest's HARVEST OF DESPAIR, a 1983 television documentary. The program was broadcast on FIRING LINE because, according to New York Public Broadcasting affiliate WNET's director of public affairs broadcasting, Peter Foges, it was "technically deficient," of "dubious quality" and failed to meet PBS's "production standards" and therefore WNET refused to run it. Only when Buckley devoted his program to it did it get an airing in New York. Difficulty in getting Public Broadcasting air time was also experienced, for the same reasons, throughout the US.
The substandard production values, the film was produced in Canada with assistance from Canada's national film board, became harder and harder to allege after the film was nominated for a 1986 Academy Award and began to win first place prizes from various international forums.
Those of us who saw the film can attest to it's excellence.
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