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Article: THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY; The "History" Channel
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- The Ukrainian Weekly
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Ukrainian Weekly, The
06-01-2003
Frankly, we expected better from The History Channel, regardless of its pop
approach to relating history - an approach that, we must admit, attracts
viewers and works well to tell a story.
However, when presenting its much-advertised two-part program titled
"Russia: Land of the Tsars," The History Channel just went too far in
"simplifying" things and in dressing up the presentation to make it more
interesting. It was a show that The New York Times reviewer Alessandra
Stanley aptly described as "fixed on the peaks of death, disaster and
repression," "bristl[ing] obligingly with pinnacles of bad behavior," "a
pop-up textbook of grisly moments brought to lurid life in ...
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