{"id":1851,"date":"2014-06-10T12:10:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/?p=5715"},"modified":"2014-06-11T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:00:07","slug":"statement-somaly-mam","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/statement-somaly-mam\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Lens Statement on Somaly Mam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Due to the questions that have recently been raised regarding Somaly Mam, one of the\u00a0women\u00a0featured in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/half-the-sky\/\"><i>Half the Sky: Turning\u00a0Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0PBS has stopped offering to public television stations episode one of\u00a0<i>Half the Sky<\/i>, which included Ms. Mam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">As\u00a0<i>Newsweek<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2014\/05\/30\/somaly-mam-holy-saint-and-sinner-sex-trafficking-251642.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0May 21, 2014, elements of Mam\u2019s personal history are under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">On June 7, Nicholas Kristof, who co-wrote the book <em>Half the Sky<\/em>, fully\u00a0responded to the news developments surrounding Mam <a href=\"http:\/\/kristof.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/07\/when-sources-may-have-lied\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0]\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the questions that have recently been raised regarding Somaly Mam, one of the\u00a0women\u00a0featured in\u00a0Half the Sky: Turning\u00a0Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,\u00a0PBS has stopped offering to public television stations episode one of\u00a0Half the Sky, which included Ms. Mam. As\u00a0Newsweek\u00a0reported\u00a0on\u00a0May 21, 2014, elements of Mam\u2019s personal history are under investigation. 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