Cuba: Political Balance Por Favor
Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
The publicly-funded STV network in Sweden last year broadcast a four-hour show in honour of Fidel Castro's 80th birthday. Child of the Revolution has discovered that “19 formal complaints were lodged with the Swedish Broadcasting Commission…The regulator concluded that the ‘theme evening’ had breached a requirement that television productions be ‘politically balanced'”.
Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
