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''X-Ray of a Lie'' ((スペイン語:Radiografía de una mentira)) is a 2004 documentary film examining another film, ''The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'' about the events of the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt. The ''X-Ray'' documentary, directed by Wolfgang Schalk and written by Schalk and Thaelman Urguelles, accuses Kim Bartley and Donacha O'Briain of "omissions and distortion" in ''The Revolution Will Not Be Televised''. It premiered on DVD in Venezuela in July 2004.〔 ==Background== ''X-Ray of a Lie'' was produced from the efforts of Wolfgang Schalk and Thaelman Urguelles, Venezuelan TV producers and engineers, as a response to the film ''The Revolution Will Not Be Televised''. Schalk, with 20 years of experience in the industry,〔 investigated the ''Revolution'' film over five months, and said he had discovered "one lie after another".〔 When, he said, "it became clear that the producers had 'changed the order of the events to fit a story that appeals to audiences'," he organized an October 2003 cinematic conference that included a general, media representatives and the chief of police to discuss and analyze the film. Schalk complained that ''The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'' "did not meet the ethical standards of the BBC" and an internet petition documenting complaints about the film was circulated.〔 Schalk said the main faults were editing to take events out of order, distortion of the events at Puente Llaguno, and others.〔 Before making ''X-Ray'', Schalk denounced ''The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'', stating that it was a violation of ethical codes and a work of propaganda.〔 〕〔 〕 Schalk writes, "''The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'' is a propaganda film designed to distort the Venezuelan reality. Its authors used the good faith and patronage of recognized European TV Corporations as the BBC, RTE, ZDF, NPS/Cobo, Arte and YLE. ''X Rays of a lie'' shows the grave omissions, informative bias and direct lies of the film."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Radiografía de una mentira (2004) (TV) )〕 Urgelles and Schalk argue that that ''The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'' ignores or misrepresents important details, including:〔 # Gunmen: the Puente Llaguno gunmen shot marchers. The documentary says they fired into the air, based on images taken at a different time. # Tank mobilization: tanks went to the presidential palace to protect the president. The documentary says they went to oust the president. # Private television signals: the government took down the signals of RCTV, Venevisión and Televén on 11 April. This is omitted from the film. # Chávez resignation announcement: General Lucas Rincón announced to the nation on television that the military had requested Chávez's resignation and he had accepted. This is omitted from the film. (Lucas Rincón later became Interior Minister for the Chavez administration.〔) # State television: VTV personnel left the facility peacefully. The documentary says the facility was overtaken and the signal disrupted. # Metropolitan Police: the police did not repress citizens during Carmona's interim presidency. The film distorts the reality with manipulated editing. # Private television attacked: private TV stations were attacked by government supporters. The documentary says the channels had decided not to broadcast information about Chavez's return to power. Phil Gunson, writing in the ''Columbia Journalism Review'', says of ''The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'': "they omit key facts, invent others, twist the sequence of events to support their case, and replace inconvenient images with others dredged from archives". Gunson writes that: "While the shooting was going on, Chavez commandeered all radio and TV frequencies for a speech that lasted almost two hours. He had used this prerogative up to seventeen times during the previous day. When private TV channels split the screen during his speeches to show the accompanying violence, the president ordered the National Guard to shut them down. None of this is featured in (Revolution Will Not Be Televised'' ), which wrongly claims that state TV (VTV) was 'the only channel to which he had access.' Later that evening, VTV went off the air after its staff deserted. The film implies that it was taken over by coup-plotters, and even fabricates a sequence in which the TV screen goes blank during a government legislator's interview. ... A group of senior officers ... is presented in the film as if they were the high command. Their leader, Vice-Admiral Hector Ramirez Perez, is identified as the head of the navy. He was not. With one solitary exception, these generals and admirals had not 'fled abroad' ... as the film claims. ... the directors omit all mention of an announcement by General Rincon that Chavez had resigned, later calling it 'supplementary to the main, key fact of the story'."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「X-Ray of a Lie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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