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Director: John Pilger
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From Time Out London
‘I didn’t do my job properly. I didn’t press the uncomfortable buttons hard enough.’ This is the honest yet alarming self-assessment of the BBC’s Rageh Omaar on his reporting of the fall of Baghdad in 2003. Omaar, posits John Pilger, is not alone. This wonderfully researched and outraged film gathers and presents the case for the prosecution. In a world of embedded reporters, sophisticated spin and governmental evasion, what price investigative journalism? Pilger is a fine, dogged interviewer and, along with Omaar, veteran US news anchor Dan Rather, Observer journalist David Rose and the BBC’s head of newsgathering, Fran Unsworth, find themselves in his sights. Pertinently, we also hear from WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange. Occasionally, the narrative is bogged down in the morass of Pilger’s righteous but all-encompassing disdain for every aspect of first world hegemony. But, small quibbles aside, this is another intrepid and important film.Author: Phil Harrison
Time Out London Issue 2103: 8 – 14 December, 2010
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- uzma said...
- Posted on Dec 16 2010 12:49 and what really bothers me is that the elite think we the public not have a RIGHT to know what's going on. The point is WE ARE THE ENEMY.
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- Ana said...
- Posted on Dec 16 2010 12:35 It makes me sad and frustrated to realise that we are under a dictatorship manipulated from USA Which they call democracy, we all need to do what they say or else....thanks God for wikilinks for opening our eyes!!!!
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- AAAAaaaaaaA said...
- Posted on Dec 16 2010 12:28 It m makes me so sad andfrustrated to realiseh how we all are manipulated, we critise dictatorship and fascism and that is wha usa is viva wikilinks for opening our eyes
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Posted on Dec 13 2010 13:25
uzma said...
Posted on Dec 13 2010 13:22
what to do you mean by 'small quibbles' over Pilger’s disdain for every aspect of first world hegemony???? thats the whole reason the media behaves the way it does, and western governments to protect its devine right over the world. If you dont get that then dont bother writing reviews for this film. Thats like saying 'platoon' was a great film aside for the thousands of killings!!! gosh dont you get it??? - Report as inappropriate
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- uzma said...
- Posted on Dec 13 2010 13:22 what to do you mean by 'small quibbles' over Pilger’s disdain for every aspect of first world hegemony???? thats the whole reason the media behaves the way it does, and western governments to protect its devine right over the world. If you dont get that then dont bother writing reviews for this film. Thats like saying 'platoon' aside for the thousands of killings!!! gosh dont you get it???
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