PBS Documentary - word on the street

From a royal muckity-muck LDS apologist, who will be appearing in the film:

PBS didn't make the film. Helen Whitney made the film. I like Helen Whitney. She's a nice person. She's intelligent, and a superb filmmaker. But she's not infallible. (I doubt that she claims infallibility.) And reliable sources tell me that she's been under at least some pressure (from elements of PBS) to make the film less positive (i.e., more negative).

I have hopes that the film will be a good one. I will be surprised if it's not sympathetic. That said, she spoke with more dissidents than I would have preferred (in fact, with more than I would regard as proportionate), and such interviews will, no doubt, have their coloring effect. I repeat what I've predicted before: Most likely, the film will be too negative for believing Latter-day Saints and too positive for hostile critics. Which is probably about the best that we can ever hope for from PBS.

Again, here is the official site:

LDS Stake Growth 1830-2004

PBS Documentary Trailer available

PBS posted a six-minute trailer to their upcoming documentary:
http://www.pbs.org/mormons/view/2514.html?&c=3wm

Not bad at all. I didn't hear much in the way of stuff that isn't
true until more than halfway through the clip.

You can tell a lot about the producer's agendas and biases, by
listening to the background music. I heard respectful, epic,
energetic, tragic. But listen to how the music changes when they
start talking about LDS gays. Their PBS is showing! :) Then they
move on to talking about the temple, and the music gets respectful
and epic again.

My personal guess: The documentary will have some errors,
misrepresentations, and uncharatible judgements. But several cuts
above what all the other non-LDS folks are saying about us.