Posted on 08/30/2008 8:13:11 PM PDT by libh8er
Michael Palin's New Europe has been rapped by the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee over its portrayal of the role of Serbia in the Balkan conflict in the 1990s.
Palin's most recent travelogue was "political commentary rather than a travel series" and gave an inaccurate account of the war in the 1990s Balkan conflict, according to one complainant.
Comments made by Palin about the destruction of a bridge at Mostar, Bosnia in 1993 came in for criticism from the complainant. Palin's comments were made in 'War and Peace', the first episode of the series, which was broadcast on BBC1 in September last year.
In its ruling on the Palin show, published today as part of its monthly update on complaints, the ESC said the presenter's comment that there was "no reason for the destruction" of the bridge at Mostar was "inaccurate".
The complainant also took exception to Palin's suggestion in the show that Serbia was "unfairly blamed" for all the trouble in the region.
In its ruling the ESC said that commentary in the show had oversimplified the issues when referring to who was to blame for the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
The committee said that the programme had "tried to provide context to imply that Serbia was not solely to blame".
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“events which were matters of political controversy”
When something is controversial, that is generally because the left are lying their butts off about it.
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The complainant also took exception to Palin’s suggestion in the show
that Serbia was “unfairly blamed” for all the trouble in the region.
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Good for Michael Palin. Looks like intestinal fortitude and truth-telling
run in the extended Palin family.
The “plenty of blame to go around” and “why the h-ll did we decide all
the Muslims were good and all the Serbs were evil” theme gets a
good analysis in the book linked below.
And how the West was duped into supporting an Islamic movement that
hid itself behind a “multicultural” facade.
And the Serbs paid the price for being “apparently the only people on
earth that couldn’t or wouldn’t mug for CNN”.
Written by a former spook and presently a Professor of Strategy at
The Naval War College.
I still can’t believe I let my wife and her sister fly into Bosnia to spend time at the Shrine at Medjudorje in 1997. They said it was rather unnerving to have armed troops board the bus and do a walk through ..
Shut your festering gob, you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodourous pervert!
“Shut your festering gob, you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodourous pervert!”
Geeze....I come to this thread looking for an argument and I get this abuse????
;-)!
Wait’ll the being-hit-over-the-head lesson givers show up...
Don’t give me that you snotty nosed heap of parrot droppings!
i'm sorry, this is abuse. arguments are down the hall...
Is it just me, or can you vaguely hear Gov. Palin's voice saying that in the debate against Biden?
Actually its FAR more likely that Biden will lose it and throw that at Palin while she smiles politely in victory.
True, if he doesn’t start out with some kind of vaguely condescending greeting to her.
you need a better tagline? feel free to borrow mine...;)
Just out of curiosity, have you read Schindler's book yourself?
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Just out of curiosity, have you read Schindler’s book yourself?
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Yes.
Checked it from the Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia, MO.
My record may not be perfect, but if I recommend a book, video, TV special,
et cetera, on FR, I usually mention whether I’ve personally “sampled”
a media item or not.
Case in point, he cites the RDC when discussing inflated Bosnian wartime civilian claims, but ignores it when it could have spared him the embarrassment of repeating inflated Serbian claims.
The book reads like it was written in Banja Luka - except if it were, it would likely give a more accurate accounting of Srebrenica, as the Bosnian Serbs themselves gave up trying to water down their actions there when they came clean back in 2004.
I’m open to Schindler not getting all details right.
But I admit an inclination to lean to Schindler’s account before I’ll
swallow the accounts of Bill Clinton and his functionaries.
And I’m not doing apologetics for the Serbs...just saying there were
some plenty of bad boys on the other side of the wire.
Actually, I’d love for some good investigative reporters to flesh out
who is more correct, Schindler, Bill Clinton, or someone else about
the mess in The Balkans.
Maybe it’s time for Ollie North or some other decent reporter to
fact-check Schindler’s book and the counter-arguments of Clinton and Co.
Try Evan Kohlmann's - "Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe".
Not the easiest read, but an eminently more scholarly effort which isn't afflicted with the partisanship Schindler's book is, and its conclusions don't suffer the indignity of being inconsistent with our experience in Bosnia.
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