[78-L] History Detectives Monday June 22 9:00 pm est

[I. Cubillo]

So Donna, Liz Mc Leod and everyone... Better not to watch the programme, as
they'll probably use TIm for what they want, not to listen to him.




Iñigo Cubillo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh at donnahalper.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] History Detectives Monday June 22 9:00 pm est


> At 03:52 PM 6/17/2009, you wrote:
>
> >Having been on HD myself a couple years ago, I think the real problem is
> >simply that their resident experts come into the program with their own
> >pet theories and beliefs about particular topics already in place
>
> Amen.  That's what happened to me in 2001 when I was an "expert" on
> the History Channel's show about car radios.  They wanted me to say
> Motorola was the first, and when I showed them evidence that it was
> not, that wasn't what they wanted to hear about.  Motorola had
> evidently sponsored a lot of the research the show used, so they
> wanted and expected pundits to support Motorola's version of history.
>
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