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PBS Acknowledges Armenian Genocide

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  • #41
    What some of you don't seem to understand here .. is that the mere presentation of Armenian Genocide denialists on American National TV is an "Insult" to the Armenian people, and specially the American Armenians.

    Those denialists don't need to say even one word... they just need to show up, that alone is an insult to the Armenian Genocide victims, and to the American-Armenian tax payers, who's money is keeping the PBS funded.

    Of course these denialists will be exteremly humiliated and devestated if the 25 minute discussion would be aired, as we all know, they have NOTHING to hold on to... That's not the issue here, I'm sure 100% that they will be the joke of the day , but that's not the issue... the problem is with the concept.

    It is misleading to show that there are "doubts" about the Armenian Genocide, on an American national TV, specially when the documentary itself had recorded the Turkish government's and it's proxies' point (which was not brilliant either).

    What's next ?? Turkish funded TV shows that compeletely deny the Armenian Genocide ? Since the door was open to McCarthy in PBS, why not !!

    It's like trying to show balancing views of people who are arguing that the earth is "Flat" ... That how silly the PBS balaincing discussion is !!

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    • #42
      Murders, Myths, And Public Broadcasting

      LA Voice, California
      March 9 2006

      When 1.5 million people die, you'd think it'd be a pretty open and
      shut case. But PBS, the great provoker of thought, has an upcoming
      documentary called "The Armenian Genocide", which will be followed
      on some stations by a panel discussion pitting genocide historians
      against "so-called scholars" who claim the Armenian genocide was a
      myth. Today's L.A. Times carries an opinion piece by Aris Janigian,
      local author and second generation Armenian-American, who denounces
      PBS' proposed debate.

      Jacoba Atlas, the senior V.P. of programming at PBS says, "We believe
      [the genocide] is settled history," but thinks, "it seemed like a
      good idea to have a panel and let people have their say." And they're
      committed to it. According to genocide historian Peter Balakian,
      PBS threatened to scrap the entire documentary if he and another
      genocide scholar declined to participate in the panel.

      Janigian denounces PBS' idea as "perverse" and doubts whether people
      would tolerate a panel discussion between David Irving, a "notorious
      holocaust revisionist," and Elie Wiesel, following a documentary on
      Nazi concentration camps.

      Janigian suggests the whole affair is an example of PBS "capitulation
      to politics." Turks, "America's so-called allies" according to
      Janigian, are fiercely protective of their country's reputation and
      even created Article 301 in their penal code, which makes it a crime to
      "'denigrate' Turkey by, for instance, mentioning the Armenian genocide
      in public." And we all saw "Midnight Express", so we know what the
      Turkish penal system can do to a man.

      It really is startling that there could be so much debate over such
      an extensive crime. And yet I'm interested to hear how the deaths of
      over a million people could be a "myth". History becomes nebulous
      almost immediately after it happens, with perspectives clashing
      against perspectives, context colliding with subtext, all mixed
      together with personal agendas, sealed over by the mists of time,
      until reality becomes relative.
      "All truth passes through three stages:
      First, it is ridiculed;
      Second, it is violently opposed; and
      Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

      Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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