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Detroit Station Plans
To Air Disputed Film
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controversial film
about the plight of
Palestinians will most
likely be shown on Detroit
Television in September, ac-
cording to a WTVS Ch. 56
spokesman. The 90-minute
film has been denounced as
"biased" and "one-sided" by
the vice-president of a New
York-station linked with the
Public Broadcasting System,
whose 333 affiliates will
broadcast the film on Sept. 6.
The film, Days of Rage: The
Young Palestinians, reports on
the Palestinian uprising in
the West Bank and Gaza from
the perspective of Palesti-
nians.
New York's WNYC was
scheduled to broadcast Days
of Rage and package it for the
entire PBS network, but two
weeks ago Chloe Aaron, vice-
president for television at the
station, said Channel 31
would not broadcast the film
because it was not balanced.
Aaron said the film was re-
jected because it does not
mention the Holocaust, how
the Jews got to Israel, how
Palestinians treated the Jews
or how Arabs treated Palesti-
nians. As a piece of "pure pro-
paganda," Aaron compared it
to German filmmaker Leni
Riefenstahl's pro-Nazi film,
Triumph of the Will often con-
sidered one of the most power-
ful works of cinematic pro-
paganda ever made.
New York's WNET, which
has agreed to broadcast the
film, convinced PBS to delay
it on the network's schedule
from June to September. The
station said it needed addi-
tional time to arrange for a
panel discussion to follow the
presentation.
Jerome Trainer, vice presi-
dent for programming at
WTVS, said he has "a tremen-
dous amount of confidence in
WNET. They are journalisti-
cally as sound as any in the
system" and should produce a
balanced panel discussion.
WTVS's September sched-
ule has not yet been set,
Trainor said, but "normal
programming" patterns of
the past indicate that local
PBS affiliates will carry the
film, just as they have carried
other controversial documen-
taries offered by PBS.
In a news column in the
New York Times, the film's
director and producer, Jo
Franklin-Trout acknowledged
that Days of Rage has a point
of view, but asserted that PBS
has presented other "one-
sided" works. Among these, el
she said, was Diary of a
Refusenik, which "had the
person telling the story of his
life. There were no cuts with
Soviet officials telling their
side of the story. We had quite
a number of Jews here adding
perspective:'
Franklin-Trout characteriz-
ed as "demeaning" her as-
sumption that PBS antici-
pated that U.S. Jews would be
offended by broadcasting
Days of Rage. American Jews,
she said, have "been the most
stalwart defendants of free-
dom of expression."
In an op-ed piece, Times'
columnist Anthony Lewis
said rejecting Days of Rage
because it was not "balanced"
is detrimental to the First
Amendment's gliarantee of
freedom of expression. The
amendment, he said, en-
courages "conflict" of opinion
so "the public can decide
what it believes .. . If news-
papers and television and
magazines could only run
`balanced' or 'unbiased' ac-
counts, we would be living in
a society very different from
the one envisaged by James
Madison, the author of the
First Amendment."
The 18-month-old intifada,
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wrote Lewis, "has had pro-
found effects on Israelis and
Palestinians . . . It is right for
Americans to be able to see
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an unvarnished expression of
the thoughts and emotions
behind the uprising," just as
the Israeli side, he said,
should be heard on American
airwaves."
Post Questions
Israeli Divorces:
Cruel Or Just?
Israel's system of divorce —
called "humiliating" by some,
defended by others — is ex-
amined in an article in The
Washington Post.
In the piece, the Post's
Jerusalem correspondent,
Glenn Frankel sketches the
peculiarities of a legal system
which has placed total
authority regarding marriage
and divorce for Jews in the
hands of its nation's Orthodox
rabbis. This system may be on
the verge of reforms because,
according to Frankel, "during
Israel's recent coalition crisis,
ultra-Orthodox parties over-
played their hand and wound
up with little influence in the
new government. That has
led secular Israelis to con-
sider anew the many ways in
which the rabbis impinge on
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