Smithsonian’s TV Deal Causes Conflict
February 13, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Smithsonian Institution’s arrangement with cable television’s Showtime Networks to allow some access to its collection is causing difficulty for the institution, reports The Washington Post.
The latest challenge came this week, after the Smithsonian rejected a request from Oliver North to film himself in front of the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan in 1945. Mr. North, host of a Fox News program, “War Stories,” criticized the museum’s move in a column on Fox’s Web site.
The museum essentially told the show it could film the plane, but not a commentator talking in front of it, the paper reports.
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