On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:09 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > n Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Director Charles Ferguson ("Inside Job") blogged on HuffPo that he has >> called off the documentary on Hillary Clinton that CNN had commissioned, >> citing inability to get on the record interviews and hostility from both >> Democrats and Republicans, both afraid of what the film might say about her >> (but with no pressure from CNN, he adds): >> >> >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-ferguson/hillary-clinton-documentary_b_4014792.html?utm_hp_ref=media >> >> Thewrap.com reports that CNN has agreed to call off the doc: >> >> http://www.thewrap.com/hillary-clinton-documentary-canceled-by-cnn-films/ >> > > I think this was a poorly conceived project from the start. While > Ferguson, and CNN and NBC, have the right to do things like this if they > wish, that does not make it a good idea. Maybe just after her husband left > the WH, or while she was Secretary of State, or after she has clearly > retired from public life. But to come out with a documentary like this on > the eve of what could easily be her presidential campaign is just bad > timing. That is a time to do good, real time journalism, not long form > documentary. > > I remember when Ronald Reagan was preparing to run for the 1980 > nomination; he had really polished his national reputation doing radio > commentaries, and there was a long feature about him on some news show > (maybe 60 Minutes or something like that), sometime in 1979 I think, that > made me liberals like me in California (who knew him from his reign of > terror in Sacramento) furious, as it seemed like it had been commissioned > by his campaign to burnish his image. But if it had focused more on his > warts, it would have infuriated a whole different segment of the population. > > If CNN comes out with a long form documentary on the life of Julian Castro > in 2017, I will think it similarly poorly timed. If you are a news > organiztaion, and you think you have a lead on information that the public > needs to know about a potentially important political leader, then do your > research and report it. >
Charles Pierce of Esquire expressed my thoughts much better than I could have. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/hillary-clinton-documentary-093013 -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
