I recommend you see this documentary if anyone here gets the chance.
Now, straight up...disclaimer is that it's a French doco, and slightly anti-Bush in the lead-up to the election.....
...BUT...I didn't know it was French until after I watched it the second time...And it's less about politics than it is about one of my all time favourite 'hate' topic:
Journalism....and the fact that there is NO SUCH THING as unbias, independant jounalism in main-stream media.
Think about it....News is as much about ratings as any other tv show...hell, 'newspapers' are a medium all to themselves.
How do they make $$ ? Selling copies and advertising. The more they sell the more $$ ad's bring in.
How do you sell more copies??...By telling the people what they want to hear.
Obviously, same goes for network 'news', and 'news' channels.
'News' is now more about entertainment, sensationalism, and telling people what they want to hear than reporting facts.
Sorry...Bit of a rant there, but it does bring me to the point I wanted to make.
The symbolic razing of the statue of Saddam when US forces entered Bagdad.
Mobs of Iraqi people dancing with US troops and pulling down the statue for the world to see, right?
Bzzzz. Wrong. The documentary showed camera angles and shots that were never shown in the main-stream meadia.
The streets were EMPTY!! There was not another person within sight anywhere in the city!
There was simply a group of about 100 people in the square...Most of whom were US soldiers.
The "Liberated Iraqi's" were drivers and translators for the soldiers. :clap:
It was a 100%, totally staged for TV production.
Even down to the finer details....Before the statue was pulled down, soldiers first placed the US flag over his head, then the Iraqi flag.
Why? So the Bush government could choose which shot they would use for their re-election ad campaign. (A shot which I believe they used during the Olympics?? I could be wrong.)
Anyway...As I said, well worth a look if anyone happens to stumble across it one day.
Oh, it's mainly interviews with US 'news' people...I don't know who most of them are, maybe you guys will....
....John Alpert, Carl Bernstein, Thomas Curley, Laura Haim, Chris Hedges, Ted Koppel, Lewis Lapham, John MacArthur, Marcy McGinnis, Scott Ritter, Helen Thomas, Mustapha Tlili & Tom Yellin.
Now, straight up...disclaimer is that it's a French doco, and slightly anti-Bush in the lead-up to the election.....
...BUT...I didn't know it was French until after I watched it the second time...And it's less about politics than it is about one of my all time favourite 'hate' topic:
Journalism....and the fact that there is NO SUCH THING as unbias, independant jounalism in main-stream media.
Think about it....News is as much about ratings as any other tv show...hell, 'newspapers' are a medium all to themselves.
How do they make $$ ? Selling copies and advertising. The more they sell the more $$ ad's bring in.
How do you sell more copies??...By telling the people what they want to hear.
Obviously, same goes for network 'news', and 'news' channels.
'News' is now more about entertainment, sensationalism, and telling people what they want to hear than reporting facts.
Sorry...Bit of a rant there, but it does bring me to the point I wanted to make.
The symbolic razing of the statue of Saddam when US forces entered Bagdad.
Mobs of Iraqi people dancing with US troops and pulling down the statue for the world to see, right?
Bzzzz. Wrong. The documentary showed camera angles and shots that were never shown in the main-stream meadia.
The streets were EMPTY!! There was not another person within sight anywhere in the city!
There was simply a group of about 100 people in the square...Most of whom were US soldiers.
The "Liberated Iraqi's" were drivers and translators for the soldiers. :clap:
It was a 100%, totally staged for TV production.
Even down to the finer details....Before the statue was pulled down, soldiers first placed the US flag over his head, then the Iraqi flag.
Why? So the Bush government could choose which shot they would use for their re-election ad campaign. (A shot which I believe they used during the Olympics?? I could be wrong.)
Anyway...As I said, well worth a look if anyone happens to stumble across it one day.
Oh, it's mainly interviews with US 'news' people...I don't know who most of them are, maybe you guys will....
....John Alpert, Carl Bernstein, Thomas Curley, Laura Haim, Chris Hedges, Ted Koppel, Lewis Lapham, John MacArthur, Marcy McGinnis, Scott Ritter, Helen Thomas, Mustapha Tlili & Tom Yellin.