Reply #96: I stand corrected...

[Devils Advocate NZ]

Although, I must now look out for that documentary again, because I'm almost certain that they said the man who reached the top first was American, although it seemed that he was an Italian-American.

Maybe, what I took to be a documentary about the first time someone reached the summit was about an earlier unsuccesful attempt. I must admit I did not watch the whole documentary.

Anyway, my apologies.

I guess I have let my cynicism towards American media boil over a little. Let's just say that it wouldn't surprise me to see the US claim somehting like this even if it wasn't true. Take for example U-571. That movie was about a US mission to capture an Enigma machine, and gave the impression that the US saved the day by doing so. It wasn't until the very end of the movie, that an explanation was made that the US was not the first, nor even second to get their hands on an Engima machine, but it still tried to give the impression that without this particular mission the other two would have been worthless, which is not true.

The fact that this piece of explanatory text happened right at the very end, when many people in movie theatres get up to leave in order to beat the rush, was also telling.

Still like I said, that is no excuse, just an explanation of why I let my prejudices get the better of me.