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The War You Don't See, a Film by John Pilger

Seeded on Tue Feb 7, 2012 5:55 PM EST
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This is a remarkable documentary in which the winner of journalism's top awards for both press and broadcasting, including academy awards in the UK and US television, John Pilger, himself a renowned war reporter, questions the role the media in war. 

   A Child screams after her parents were killed by U.S. soldiers --------------->
[Photo by Chris Hondros, the Getty Images photographer killed on the front lines in Misurata, Libya.] 

The War You Don't See asks whether mainstream news has become an integral part of war-making.

Focusing on the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, Pilger reflects on the history of the relationship between the media and government in times of conflict stretching back to World War I and explores the impact on the information fed to the public of the modern day practice of public relations in the guise of 'embedding' journalists with the military.

Featuring interviews with senior figures at major UK broadcasters, the BBC and ITV, and high profile journalists on both sides of the Atlantic, including Rageh Omaar and Dan Rather, the film investigates the reporting of government claims that Iraq harboured weapons of mass destruction. Watch streamer;

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"The [above] image of Samar, then 5 years old, screaming and splattered in blood after American soldiers opened fire on her family's car in the northern town of Tal Afar in January 2005, illuminated the horror of civilian casualties and has been one of the few images from this conflict to rise to the pantheon of classic war photography."

"My brother was sick, and we were taking him to the hospital and on the way back, this happened," Samar said. "We just heard bullets.

"My mother and father were killed, just like that."

[From The Face That Screamed The Worlds Pain - NY Times]

  • 5 votes
Reply#1 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 6:19 PM EST
Rodney-889389

My god, what have we done.

We lost 3,000 people on 911 and we responded by killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims who had nothing to do it.

What a crime.

  • 7 votes
Reply#2 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 6:44 PM EST
DrBrooks

Amazing documentary. Pilger is a true journalist. I watched the film in its entirety a few months ago. Enough to make you cry. This should be mandatory viewing for every American.

  • 5 votes
Reply#3 - Wed Feb 8, 2012 2:15 AM EST
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