I am sure of it. His work has involved renegade paedophile hunters, Muslim terror attacks, 9/11, the Haiti earthquake. His IMDB ratings go as high as 8.2 and as low as 2.3. He also has a 3.7, and a 3. The rest are around the 5-7 mark. Despite this very low ratings for his work he has won 3 BAFTA Awards. To me this stinks of the TPTB propping up this director to give him a bigger platform.
His 9/11 work has focused on the Ground Zero mosque and a few people who lied about having dead relatives in the attack to win some money. To me this is an attempt to display Americans as rabid Islamaphobics and to draw attention away from the real criminals of 9/11 and shine unnecessary light on small time crooks.
His documentary about a renegade paedophile hunter is one of better rated documentaries however what shows like this do is bring out the liberal lefties who love to look down their noses at working class people who are sick of soft prison sentences or police turning a blind eye to paedophiles. I've no doubt this documentary was made to make these people look like fools.
His other work on Haiti focused on the fact that prisoners used the tsunami to escape from jail. Is this a story worth telling? Bad people doing bad things? Maybe. But his other work just makes me think he was hired to make the documentary to divert attention.
His documentaries on legal highs and the Charlie Hebdo attack received ratings of 3 and 3.7. Suggesting he's in fact a very poor documentary maker despite this being his career he supposedly won 3 BAFTA awards for.
Dan Reed
Legally High
Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks
The Ground Zero Mosque
The 9/11 Liars
Battle For Haiti
Was anyone convinced by his Michael Jackson documentary?
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cutelobster ago
No doubt that MJ was a pedo - but this was obvious for decades. Once he had to settle with Jordan Chandler for millions of dollars it was obvious (noone innocent would ever do this.) Plus his desire to make up for 'his lost childhood' seemed always to involve good-looking boys and a strange desire to sleep naked with them. So it's been known forever. Now this documentary is presented as some kind of supposed watershed moment - MJ a pedo! No way! So, yes, this documentary has been pushed. The director's back-catalogue IS suspicious - a roll-call of dodgy topics receiving dodgy treatments. The question then is why is the MJ thing being pushed and then you are off into speculation. Limited hangout? MJ had to have a lot of enablers and it's hard to believe he wasn't part of some wider network - Savile-style. Also (elements in) law-enforcement + intelligence-agencies must have known, as they must have known with Savile. The push probably also has something to do with (a) making money [never to be underestimated] and (b) moving people over to Netflix.