{"id":334094,"date":"2010-02-17T09:20:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22478"},"modified":"2010-02-17T09:20:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:20:49","slug":"robert-greenwald-attacks-kennedy-miniseries-on-history-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/334094","title":{"rendered":"Robert Greenwald Attacks Kennedy Miniseries On History Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the very start of our home video business, we&#8217;ve worked with director Robert Greenwald, who has become a sort of Defender of the Faith for progressive politics. It speaks volumes that when Robert takes up a cause, it lands on the front page of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/17\/arts\/television\/17kennedy.html\">New York Times<\/a> (story below). I have to say I&#8217;m also delighted that Robert has highlighted the problem with much of the History Channel&#8217;s programming &#8211; it&#8217;s not history, it&#8217;s entertainment with a focus on ratings at the expense of veracity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new mini-series about John F. Kennedy\u2019s presidency that is being prepared by the History channel does not yet have a cast or a premiere date. Not a frame of footage has been shot. It does, however, have prominent critics who want it brought to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>The critics, including Theodore C. Sorensen, a former Kennedy adviser, say they have read the scripts for the project and that those contain errors of fact and emphasis. But like a similar controversy over a 2003 television film about Ronald Reagan, the dispute over the embryonic Kennedy series seems to say as much about the enduring place of the Kennedys as a battleground in the culture wars as it does about history itself.<\/p>\n<p>The mini-series, called \u201cThe Kennedys,\u201d is the brainchild of Joel Surnow, a creator of the Fox action show \u201c24\u201d and an outspoken political conservative&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the very start of our home video business, we&#8217;ve worked with director Robert Greenwald, who has become a sort of Defender of the Faith for progressive politics. It speaks volumes that when Robert takes up a cause, it lands on the front page of the New York Times (story below). I have to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}