History channel revises history... not that that's news.

[K-W]

Im watching a show about vodoo, not a very good show, but they briefly talked about the history of Haiti and explained that an "unstable political situation forced president Wilson to send in marines as peacekeepers"


Society faces a death by a thousand cuts from small crimes against reality. It adds to the underlying mythology in our society that allows Bush massive leeway to lie.


For anyone not aware, we invaded and occupied Haiti because it was a nation of former slaves feuling anti-colonialism in the region. It was governed by the US marines. The American people were told that German agents were behind the Haitian government, that black people couldnt govern themselves and must be controlled by foriegn agents.

This started a long history, lasting to this day of the US essentially controlling the nation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti#1804-1915:_Post-Independence

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. I wouldn't trust the history on the History Channel

I haven't trusted it since they claimed that "leftist guerillas" killed Archbishop Romero of El Salvador.

Everyone, even the right wing, used to know that Romero was killed by right wing death squads for his support of the leftist guerillas.

[hector459]

2. Oh, please stop with the facts already!!!

If you really want to see how much the west has revised history, read all the myths about how the whites had to tame the Native Americans and how "uncivilized" they were.

[Cleita]

3. I've seen many little propaganda items sneaked in on the

History Channel and also many of the other educational channels like Discover. Sometimes it's really old programs replayed before new data was known or discoveries changed the commonly held view, but often it's obviously purely bias. Of course I can say this about all my school history text books as well.

[lenidog]

4. That is the amazing thing about history

everyone including historians have a different view on what actually went down. I will admit that I have seen some shoddy scholarship on some of the documentaries but then again 90% or more of them are not made by the History Channel but bought by them.

[K-W]

6. It is more than just a different view.

It is the repitition of deception. It is as much a different view as having the view that saddam was responsible for 9/11.

And yes, I know the history channel doesnt make them, but it airs them. That the US invasion of Haiti was a peacekeeping mission is an outright lie. If they are going to show this documentary, they should black out that section of it.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. I've been disappointed in the History Channel, too, lately

I've mostly been watching the Discovery Times channel which has broadcast some excellent documentaries over the past couple of weeks. They've run a series the past few nights on war correspondents that has really been phenomenal. The one last night was on war reporting and censorship and was the best thing I've seen on TV in a long time. The final point made was that if the journalists were allowed to show on TV what they've really seen and documented, no one would ever want to go to war again. The footage that was shown throughout the whole series was remarkable and terribly moving, and the candid remarks of the journalists very enlightening, even the mainstream guys like Peter Jennings, Bernard Shaw, etc.

[kskiska]

7. They did a show on presidential mothers a year or so ago

where it was stated that the Chimp was born in Texas.

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. Who owns the History Channel? n/t

[K-W]

10. The Hearst Family, GE, Disney

http://www.historychannel.com/global/corporate/index.jsp?NetwCode=THC


A&E Television Networks (AETN), a joint venture of the Hearst Corporation, ABC, Inc., and NBC,

[MadHound]

9. That's about the only reason I watch the History Channel anymore

Is to test myself, seeing how many of their little "mistakes" I can catch. Sad to say, it's quite a few.