Can't comment on the episode, but I read the article last week after seeing a Twitter link to it, and it seems remarkably well-researched.
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie I don't have a vested interest in the story either, although I did see the documentary about her on American Masters last year. I thought it was well-done, although I still don't think she's a major artist. On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 9:02:21 PM UTC-4 Kevin M. wrote: > Canadians will have to tell me whether the tone of that story was typical > of that series. I found it tainted with so much bias that I couldn’t help > but wonder who emotionally wounded the reporter to make him feel that way. > > I have no vested interest in the ethnicity of the woman in question; I > don’t know enough about her to care about her background, but they very > clearly did. Everything from the sinister music normally reserved for axe > murderers and rapists to the darkened almost noir-like old photos reeked of > bias. Maybe she made up her background, or maybe she misunderstood her > background, or maybe she simply didn’t know… didn’t matter to the reporter… > he was out to tarnish her reputation and destroy her career. That was some > truly, remarkably, unbelievably bad television. > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 5:31 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> It's on the 'toob, and not blocked outside Canada... >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsqCWNCUc4 (link) >> B >> >> Mark Jeffries, Oct 27th: >> >> Tonight's episode of the CBC's long-running newsmag "The Fifth Estate" >> will contain a report supposedly revealing that an "iconic Canadian singer" >> is not what she claimed to be for many years--folk singer Buffy >> Sainte-Marie, the first indigenous winner of an Oscar in 1982 for >> co-writing the "Officer and a Gentleman" theme "Up Where We Belong," >> believes that she is the subject of the report and that the report wrong, >> saying that the Canadian pubcaster interviewed her last month her ancestry >> and being sexually assaulted as a child and that although she does not know >> everything about her ancestry, "I know who I am": >> >> >> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/buffy-sainte-marie-responds-pretendian-1235628540/ >> >> The above contains a video statement from Sainte-Marie--Americans will >> only be able to see the program if they live near the Canadian border and >> can pick up a CBC station OTA or on cable or if it is put online. >> >> -- >> > 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 tvornottv+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/251f9292-2fb6-4948-9b54-b96e46683e60n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/251f9292-2fb6-4948-9b54-b96e46683e60n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/019b2672-5a22-432f-a2f7-9080de6b8120n%40googlegroups.com.
