{"id":208675,"date":"2025-12-24T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208675\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:09:10","slug":"paul-kimmage-saipan-is-not-a-documentary-its-a-dangerous-and-unholy-collision-of-fact-and-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208675\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kimmage: \u2018Saipan\u2019 is not a documentary, it\u2019s a dangerous and unholy collision of fact and fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Authors and filmmakers have an obligation to be as accurate as possible when they represent real people <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/96513ad9-3f90-4c31-b001-be2e1c69e857.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u2018The Crown\u2019 is not a documentary. The presence of actors is a strong clue; members of the Royal Family wish they were this good looking. Do viewers need to be warned about this? One British politician thinks so. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cIt\u2019s a beautifully produced work of fiction, so as with other TV productions, Netflix should be very clear it is just that,\u201d the Conservative culture minister, Oliver Dowden, said this week. \u201cI fear a generation of viewers who did not live through these events may mistake fiction for fact.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authors and filmmakers have an obligation to be as accurate as possible when they represent real people \u2018The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270,42965,271],"class_list":["post-208675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-paul-kimmage","tag-roy-keane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}