The story of what does not get reported in Iraq by the mainstream media.
IRAQ: The hidden story
A very powerful 45-minute documentary on the state of things in Iraq, narrated by Jon Snow for Britain's Channel 4. Watch here:
More on this film from Kathy Gill on About.com:
The first quarter of the video focuses on how media organizations, governments and cultures choose to show images of death. On one hand, I understand the desire to "protect" young minds from these gruesome images … but on the other, I think it might be important to show how real carnage differs from the antiseptic violence of American TV, Hollywood and video-computer games. I see no reason to protect adults from having to see the real consequences of actions taken in the name of their countries or their clans.
From Starrider on Radical Orthodoxy:
According to some - the news is not censored, sanitized or co-opted to the powers that be enough … the problem is actually that the "liberal media" reports too much bad news.
There is a term; "Orwellian" - look into it.
Are we really afraid that the American public cannot make proper, moral, well-thought-out decisions if they view and contemplate the unvarnished truth? Are we actually prepared to say that the enemy is truth? Truth then undermines and undercuts the mission of the United States?
This entry was posted on Sunday, February 18th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
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