Getting History Wrong | National Catholic Reporter

Getting History Wrong | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: The History Channel produces documentaries that are more on the order of war movies, like Patton or The Longest Day.  They do that for one reason, people watch them - not history majors or professors but the average channel surfer.  A little dramatization is to be expected in that brand of history that puts dialogue in people's mouths that can never be exact - although you could dramatize what is on the Watergate tapes - but the Tea Party would storm the studio.  I am sure Game Change, the Clinton Campaign Edition, is probably being written to be out next year or the year after.  Of course, that might not happen if you believe that Hollywood has a liberal bias.  Hollywood has a bias for money - which is why you see the History Channel programming that you do and will likely see Game Change again.