Enemy Image (1/2) - France2 (2005)

http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyesunday/feature_161005.html
The invasion of Iraq was the most closely documented war ever fought. Lasting only 800 hours, it produced 20,000 hours of video, but those images were tightly controlled, producing a monolithic view of combat sanitised and controlled by the Pentagon.
"Enemy Image" is a 2005 documentary film by Mark Daniels about the portrayal of warfare in television news. The film focuses initially on the Vietnam War as the first war ever televised "live". During this war the American government allowed reporters onto the battlefield with little supervision or control. The documentary follows the way The Pentagon learned from this experience to control access by journalists to battle areas in subsequent wars, through the Invasion of Grenada (where journalists were excluded completely) to the first Gulf War, where news packages were provided by the military, to the embedded journalism of the Iraq War. The theme of the film is the progressive tightening of control by the US military on the contact journalists have with soldiers and civilians in the war zone, in order that (as the film says at the end) "never again will television raise the moral and political questions that face a people at war."

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Education

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• US
• news
• media
• war
• press
• freedom
• Free

[snaileri]

Americans believe anything the media tells them.

[MegaHomonaama]

So sad.. we are so stupid and easy to control.

[nathanjona]

Jean Baudrillard