Well for the second time in a week I must insist that you read Larisa Alexandrovna over at huffingtonpost.com. She talks about John Cusack’s new film about Iraq war profiteering and the almost certain attempt by the media to relegate it to the smallest markets:
…I do not believe there is an organized, conspiratorial effort to shut-down a wide release of War Inc. Just to be clear, that is not what I am saying. In reality, we no longer need any organized effort because the mechanism of censorship is now so fully integrated into the body-politic of this nation anyway.
I like Larisa because she truly understands that the US media is not about getting the news out; there is no “fair and balanced” on cable and network news or in the conglomerate-owned radio and print media. Hopefully War, Inc. will be playing near me so that I can support it. Check your local listings and support a film that questions this immoral, illegal war.
Orwell said propoganda isn’t what the news media reports; its what they don’t report.
The mainstream media could do alot to marginalize this movie just by ignoring it. The movie Idiocracy would have have done much better at the box office (instead of being relegated to the minor cult movie status it now enjoys) if the MSM – and even the film’s production studio, 20th Century Fox – hadn’t completely denied it any publicity.
Very true, tm. Another favorite Orwell statement about the news:
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.