TheStar.com – Gulf war stars CNN as itself
Instead, Live From Baghdad is just much more propaganda from the company that seems to want a war so that it can … what? Regain top spot in the news network ratings race? Relive CNN’s glory days?
How else to explain why the movie repeats the lie – perpetuated in 1990 by the Kuwaiti government, the giant Hill & Knowlton P.R. company, the media and President George Bush I that Iraqi soldiers ripped Kuwaiti babies out of their incubators and left them “to die on the cold floor”?
Worked like a charm back then, helping to shape world opinion against Saddam and Iraq – until it was exposed as the not-so-carefully crafted fiction that it was. Yet, here is that propaganda again in Live From Baghdad. Why?
Interesting reading. I saw the movie in question tonight on HBO myself. It did seem a little bit self-congratulatory. It did seem to take a flattering look at itself and the CNN news machine.
But then again, journalists will probably have more than one opinion about this film. Some will love it for documenting their craft. Others will hate it for many other reasons.