BBC documentary ‘Bitter Lake’ is ‘too dangerous’ for TV
As not seen on BBC television
Though commentators have made much of Curtis only releasing the film online, on the BBC iPlayer, they fail to explain that’s because the BBC’s television channels did not commission it – and online did. That decision is the commissioning editor’s. In the cult of television, could it simply be that the vicious truth is okay for kids – what, with all those wacky YouTube videos – but too much for the masses?
