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Death on TV: collaboration, complicity or collusion?
The tea-cup sized trust storm enveloping Paul Watson and his documentary, Malcolm & Barbara: Love’s farewell, continues to brew. He was on the Today programme, Barbara Pointon talked to BBC News. (I chipped in briefly on News 24.) Watson’s film was made at the invitation of Mrs Pointon (husband Malcolm being unable to grant or…
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A is for Alzheimers, F is for Fake
Paul Watson first brought Britain docu-soap in 1974 with a twelve part series, The Family. He also made Aussie-based titillater Sylvania Waters. His latest film, Malcolm & Barbara: Love’s farewell, is an altogether more sober affair about a marriage ending as husband Malcolm dies of complications arising from Alzheimers. ITV will air it on August…
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Can you trust the media?
In what passes for my spare time, I’m finishing a book on trust in the media…Here is a quick preview of an early cover design. Any feedback appreciated!
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Faction and fakes, trust and distrust
The director Peter Kosminsky was once a documentary maker. In 1988 he made a film called Afghantsi, about the Red Army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The film won all sorts of awards, but what I loved about it were the sequences cut to a haunting piece of brilliantly chosen Afghan music. I resolved to track it…