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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: David Mack on December 27, 2010, 07:58:15 PM
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A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of ‘embedded’ and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq. As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an ‘electronic battlefield’ in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. But who is the real enemy?
John Pilger says in the film: “We journalists… have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else’s country… That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home… In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us… Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power.”
Fucking Brilliant Documentary. Don't Sleep. Link Below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cJ9ca0ed64
World renowned journalist John Pilgers view on Terrorism, Iraq and 9/11 lies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7VDMJZB_s
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The US mainstream media, as a rule, doesn't show war footage since Vietnam. The reason being, that if the public saw the ungody attrocious things being done, they would demand that this shit stop.
The mainstream media is not only complicit, they are a purposeful instrument owned and used by those same people who run our government, banks, hollywood, etc. to propagate their agenda.