Craig Murray - Censorship By PBS

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June 30, 2007

Censorship By PBS

This link goes to a blog referencing a Frontline documentary on the alleged Toronto bomb plot, in which I participated.
http://blog.throwawayyourtv.com/2007/06/cracking-toronto-terror-cell.html

it is not a great documentary, giving too much implicit credence to an extremely dodgy informant, and ignoring the crucial agent provocateur aspects of the case. This series is produced out of Canada, and shown first there, and then in the US by PBS. The original documentary did have the saving grace of looking at what drives young Muslims to extremism, particularly in US and UK foreign policy. That is where I came in.

However, when PBS came to reshow this in the US, they insisted on a complete recut, taking out all the balance (including all of me) and turning it purely into an exercise in fear - those Muslims are planning to blow you up because they are plain evil.

Posted by craig on June 30, 2007 10:52 AM in the category Interviews

Comments

And NPR is considered to be one of the best media outlets in the U.S. for news...

I'm not picking on your grammar, but unless you're confessing to being a part of the plot, you might want to reword this:

"This link goes to a blog referencing a Frontline documentary on the alleged Toronto bomb plot, in which I participated."

Maybe something like: "This link goes to a blog referencing a Frontline documentary, in which I participated, on the alleged Toronto bomb plot."

Posted by: ummabdulla at June 30, 2007 1:12 PM

ummabdulla,

Good point! I think I'll leave it because it's quite funny.

Posted by: Craig at June 30, 2007 1:16 PM

This might interest you Craig go to the bottom of the page and click on "Letter to The Independent"...

http://www.haroldpinter.org/politics/index.shtml#

http://tinyurl.com/2uc6yn

Posted by: George Dutton at July 1, 2007 5:28 PM

I am writing to you on behalf of NPR and your statements are inaccurate. You appear to be referring to PBS, the American public television network. NPR is a public radio network. These two organizations are independent of each other. NPR has nothing to do with Frontline nor any television programming. I'd appreciate you correcting your facts and comments.

Posted by: NPR representative at July 2, 2007 2:11 PM

NPR rep

You're right, of course. Sorry, changed.

Posted by: Craig at July 2, 2007 10:36 PM