SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY:

Swedish Castro broadcast 'too positive' about dictator (The Local, 16th April 2007)

An evening of documentaries on Sweden's SVT television channel about Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has been condemned by regulators as being too positive about the veteran Communist leader.

The four-hour theme evening on December 2nd consisted of three documentaries, including Oliver Stone's Comandante, and a ten-minute studio debate between a former senior member of the Left Party and a Cuban writer.

In a ruling released on Monday, the Swedish Broadcasting Commission said that the evening broke the requirement for television productions to be politically balanced.

One assumes the BBC and PBS will be showing it shortly.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 16, 2007 6:17 AM