review on War you don t want to see
Kozachok Zoriana
“We reporting it, no matter truth it or not”
John Pilger’s documentary movie you can’t see because of war he showed in it. It is not a new report about war cruel or lies in mass-media, it is a scream in a silent society about extent of our information blindness. It is a movie you can’t see, you don’t want to see, but you must see.
“The war you don’t see” shows us a huge difference between what we expect from mass-media and what we really get. And we always get a lie. How big and how powerful this lie depends on the situation. And of course of social status of people who are in this situation. This film is about journalistic lie in war: prepared or random one.
Starts from World War I propaganda John Pilger leads us to every global war of XX century and shows how was it and how media reported it to people. And the last stop is war in Iraq: from the organization of it to a scandal reporting which detected crimes from a “hero’s army” and words of people who realized what they did in this “tragedy mistake”.
Almost all of “media-people” in movie speak about their faults and understanding they were wrong. But also all of them said they were blind because of …and here you start understand that they always had excuses. Always. There are fear before government or possibilities to lose their job and cancelling in this case their future “good deals”, their incomprehension of the truth in first moment, their duty to report people everything they see, hear and understand no matter how bid part of reality and truth in this. And you must know what to do with this information. It is objectivism. But is it the mission of media?
Mission of news media is to inform not to form. But they form. They formed yours, mine, hers every bodies mind all the time. We just don’t realize it and when realize don’t want to take it and still watch the TV-news, read the newspapers and even listen to the radio in the our cars.
When the question of media inspiration is in buying new
“We reporting it, no matter truth it or not”
John Pilger’s documentary movie you can’t see because of war he showed in it. It is not a new report about war cruel or lies in mass-media, it is a scream in a silent society about extent of our information blindness. It is a movie you can’t see, you don’t want to see, but you must see.
“The war you don’t see” shows us a huge difference between what we expect from mass-media and what we really get. And we always get a lie. How big and how powerful this lie depends on the situation. And of course of social status of people who are in this situation. This film is about journalistic lie in war: prepared or random one.
Starts from World War I propaganda John Pilger leads us to every global war of XX century and shows how was it and how media reported it to people. And the last stop is war in Iraq: from the organization of it to a scandal reporting which detected crimes from a “hero’s army” and words of people who realized what they did in this “tragedy mistake”.
Almost all of “media-people” in movie speak about their faults and understanding they were wrong. But also all of them said they were blind because of …and here you start understand that they always had excuses. Always. There are fear before government or possibilities to lose their job and cancelling in this case their future “good deals”, their incomprehension of the truth in first moment, their duty to report people everything they see, hear and understand no matter how bid part of reality and truth in this. And you must know what to do with this information. It is objectivism. But is it the mission of media?
Mission of news media is to inform not to form. But they form. They formed yours, mine, hers every bodies mind all the time. We just don’t realize it and when realize don’t want to take it and still watch the TV-news, read the newspapers and even listen to the radio in the our cars.
When the question of media inspiration is in buying new