sjam: This would be the case if state issued concessions would not exist. What planet do you live on? Certainly not one that involves commericial broadcast.
According to you The Office of Communications doesn't exist in the UK? Below fragments of Wiki article.
Ofcom's responsibilities are wide-ranging, covering all manner of industries and processes. It has a statutory duty to further what it considers the interests of citizens and consumers by promoting competition and protecting consumers from what it considers harmful or offensive material. Some of the main areas over which Ofcom presides are licensing, undertaking research, creating codes and policies, addressing complaints and looking into competition.
Ofcom is responsible for the management, regulation, assignment and licensing of the electromagnetic spectrum in the UK, and licenses portions of it for use in TV and radio broadcasts, mobile phone transmissions, private communications networks, and so on. The process of licensing varies depending on the type of usage required. Some licenses simply have to be applied for and paid for, others are subject to a bidding process. Most of the procedures in place have been inherited from the systems used by the previous regulators. However, Ofcom may change some of these processes in future.
Perhaps miraculously political establishment doesn't control Ofcom? No way!
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2009/02/nr_20090220a
The Government today confirmed the appointment of Colette Bowe as Ofcom’s new Chairman. She will take up the position on 11 March.
The confirmed appointment follows a public scrutiny hearing by the Business and Culture, Media and Sport Select Committees which took place on 13 January 2009 in line with Parliamentary procedures for public appointments.
So, who is an ignorant here?
sjam: here have been many cases where the government of the day has tried in vain to muzzle the BBC. Hell, the BBC even decided to allow the right-wing pro-fascist BNP a platform to appear on one of its prime-time political TV slots despite protest from some Labour (read Socialist) government figures! So much for state-control even in a state- owned corporation!!
BNP politician was invited once. This proof nothing, I actually watched on You Tube and this was organized lynch. They wanted to expose BNP agenda and for sure they succeed to some extend. If they would invite BNP politicians regularly and talk with them aboout something else than racism in BNP then you could have a point. However this is not the case.
Beside of that the only mainstream party in the UK which doesn't seems to be socialist is UKIP. Both Tories (I highly doubt whether Thatcher still support this party) and especially BNP are socialist.
sjam: The national conservative right organisations that funded this film include Lithuania whose citizens murdered almost 200,000 Jews during WWII—bet there is no mention of Latvian complicity in the Holocaust in the film? Nor the fact that the Latvian Arājs Commando, (and in part the Latvian auxiliary police) aided the Nazis in murdering some 25,000 Jews in the Rumbula forest near Riga—now I'll bet this isn't mentioned in the film? That there was a Danish SS unit—the Schalburg Corps? Bet this isn't mentioned in the film either? Aslo I'll bet the Italian facsists who were allies of Germany during WWII aren't mentioned either? Now why would these political parties, mainly from countries that actively collaborated with the Nazis and some of whom aided the mass murder of Jews, sponsor this film?
This film was about Soviet crimes and Soviet-Nazi collaboration. There is no reason to mention neither Lithuanian, Latvian or Italian collaboration. These are topics for other documentary. Your expectations cannot be treated seriously. Perhaps you would rather welcome documentary about above mentioned issues rather communist crimes and Soviet-Nazi alliance?
sjam: Maybe you can answer this? Was the IPN or Memorial or Karta organisataions asked to verify that these were indeed genuine Soviet documents?
No, you know that I cannot. We can also question every each historical document. This is not a reason to ban this documentary (silence if also kind of ban, no need to official ban) or insist that this is propaganda.
sjam: But in anycase if it was shown at 2am does it matter? A
Yes it does matter. Basically only people who already know much would be willing to record such documentary. Wider, incidental publicity wont even know (add lack of adversing campaign).
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