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Truth and infoganda. (Letters).

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| June 01, 2002 | Gordon, M. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SIR: Neil McDonald's "Fact and Faction" (May 2002) served to undermine the major reasons for my subscribing to Quadrant, namely, a different take on the mainstream left conventional journalism; a reasonably objective analysis; a reasonably argued case based on factual evidence in historical and other context.

To attribute to Oliver Stone (JFK), or Roger Donaldson (Thirteen Days) any notion of "scholarship" is a travesty. To suggest that these films become "historical works" which people should use with authority is incomprehensible. Both films (which I have seen) simply regurgitate the same left-wing conspiracy theories and are predictably polemical (and I would argue spurious) works.

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