Will Mike Hale's Review of 'My Lai' Documentary Compare It to Iraq, Afghanistan? Of Course

Mike Hale goes there: "The slaughter of hundreds of unarmed villagers in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam, in March 1968 - an event that came to be known as the My Lai massacre - is both an open wound in the American psyche and a cautionary tale at a time when we are once again fighting wars, and killing civilians, on foreign soil."

Clay Waters

April 26, 2010 - 2:11pm

TV critic Mike Hale reviewed PBS's latest "American Experience" presentation on the Vietnam War's My Lai massacre in "A Dark Day That Still Resonates [1]" for Monday's edition.

The slaughter of hundreds of unarmed villagers in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam, in March 1968 - an event that came to be known as the My Lai massacre - is both an open wound in the American psyche and a cautionary tale at a time when we are once again fighting wars, and killing civilians, on foreign soil.

Hale predictably liked Barak Goodman's documentary. His reviews favor potted histories from off PBS's government-funded production line, especially left-wing public affairs series like Frontline. Glenn Beck simulcasts? Not so much [2]. Never hesitant to work in his political opinions into his reviews, Hale has also embraced European-style nationalized health care [3] as clearly superior to the U.S. version (until Obama-care kicks in, anyway).

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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/arts/television/26mylai.html?scp=1&sq=%22mike%20hale%22&st=cse
[2] http://mrc.org/TimesWatch/Articles/2009/20090605014320.aspx
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