Iraq — Band of Brothers
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in MediaWatch, Movies, Politics | No Comments »
Consensus: Stop-Loss is sincere and complex, and features strong performances, but it also veers into overwrought dramatic territory and tries to cover too much ground. (Rotten Tomatoes) The logic behind the ... Read more..Iraq — No End in Sight
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in MediaWatch, Movies, Politics | No Comments »
Frank Gibney was an old Japan hand. During World War II, someone in the U.S. Navy had the singular idea that a person who had studied one foreign language could easily ... Read more..Iraq — And All Our Yesterdays Have Lighted Fools
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in MediaWatch, Politics | No Comments »
The Frontline production Bush's War can't make up its mind what it is. According to its website, either it is the definitive documentary analysis of one of the most challenging periods ... Read more..Iraq — Sensory Deprivation
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in MediaWatch, Movies, Politics | No Comments »
Many discussions of "Exposure," the Abu Ghraib article in the March 24 New Yorker, comment that authors Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris assert, The abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was ... Read more..Iraq — Worth a Thousand Words
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in MediaWatch, Politics | No Comments »
Just as American's attitudes toward the Vietnam War changed once they began to see battle scenes on their evening newscasts, so too have images focused and clarified opposition to the ... Read more..