Skeptics Wary of Walden

The Guardian is running a very lengthy and interesting (if paranoid) article about Walden Media. The basic tenet of the article is: how can you trust educational materials produced by a film company? Doesn't it just amount to the ultimate form of crass marketing?

I've been paying attention to what Walden is doing for a long time, and it seems to me that no other studio would dream of producing films the way they do. It requires paying far too much attention to the source materials, and it's costly. I personally think Walden should be commended for their approach to education and filmmaking.

But then I generally don't get too paranoid about the politics of the people behind film studios. And that's The Guardian's real agenda. They just don't like the idea of Philip Anschutz.

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The Guardian, 30.06.05