War Made Easy: Trade Roughage, 08/14/07

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Dennis Harvery reviews a documentary narrated by Sean Penn called War Made Easy, based on pundit Norman Solomon’s book of the same name, about how media institutions collude with governments to shape public opinion on war. “Escalation in ground-level harm has, per Solomon, been deliberately obscured from public knowledge. Instead, attention is refocused on dubious feel-good reconstruction stories and fodder from embedded journalists selected by military intelligence to fly and bond with troops on select missions. Fox News is predictably bashed here, but supposedly neutral CNN gets it even harder.” The film opens next week in San Francisco only.
Ice Cube and his producing partner Matt Alvarez are allegedly trying to produce a big screen adaptation of the graphic novel 10 at Dimension. Oddly, Variety says The Weinstein Company “declined comment.”
Sarah Polley’s directorial debut, Away From Her, received five nominations from the Director’s Guild of Canada yesterday — more than any other film.

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