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It's a small world after all.
Dec. 4th, 2006 12:00 pmMany of you won't remember this far back, but a long time ago Michael Moore was both interesting and funny. His first TV show, TV Nation remains one of my favourite viewing experiences ever; it was subversive, original, and at times very, very funny.
One of the pieces they did was hire their own former KGB agent. The Soviet Union had collapsed and TV Nation thought it would be fun to hire an ex-Soviet sppok to do things like infiltrate their rival networks and sabotage programme production, or find out if Richard Nixon is really dead. They hired former KGB Major Yuri Shvets to do this, much to the horror of both his and other networks, and the gleeful joy of his audience.
Of course, Moore has degenerated into showboating and staging things for the camera to make his points and this has undermined his entire body of work. If he made stuff up to score points in Bowling for Columbine and Farenheit 9/11, how can we ever be sure that the original TV Nation wasn't staged as well?
I was interested to see in the paper this morning that the TV Nation KGB Agent has popped up in the Litvinenko poisoning affair. He's apparently been talking to Scotland Yard about people whom he suspects as being behind the poisoning. It's strange to hit a name ten years later in an entirely different context and have it ring bells like that.
It's even stranger to think that Yuri, the TV Nation spy, still appears to keep his finger on the pulse of what's going on in the shadowy world of spooks.
One of the pieces they did was hire their own former KGB agent. The Soviet Union had collapsed and TV Nation thought it would be fun to hire an ex-Soviet sppok to do things like infiltrate their rival networks and sabotage programme production, or find out if Richard Nixon is really dead. They hired former KGB Major Yuri Shvets to do this, much to the horror of both his and other networks, and the gleeful joy of his audience.
Of course, Moore has degenerated into showboating and staging things for the camera to make his points and this has undermined his entire body of work. If he made stuff up to score points in Bowling for Columbine and Farenheit 9/11, how can we ever be sure that the original TV Nation wasn't staged as well?
I was interested to see in the paper this morning that the TV Nation KGB Agent has popped up in the Litvinenko poisoning affair. He's apparently been talking to Scotland Yard about people whom he suspects as being behind the poisoning. It's strange to hit a name ten years later in an entirely different context and have it ring bells like that.
It's even stranger to think that Yuri, the TV Nation spy, still appears to keep his finger on the pulse of what's going on in the shadowy world of spooks.
