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...China's few independent documentary filmmakers?and to get honest footage in a country that often treats truth as a state secret, the 33-year-old cameraman relies as much on stealth as stagecraft. For his 2002 documentary, To Live is Better Than To Die, a stark portrayal of a family destroyed by AIDS, he sneaked into the village of Wenlou in central Henan province dressed as a peasant, creeping through cornfields in the dead of night with his equipment stashed in a fertilizer bag. That was the only way he could elude police in order to film the effects...
...root cause of this kind of sensationalized coverage is the radically new phenomenon of embedded journalists. For the first time in the modern history of war—and in stark contrast to Gulf War Part I where journalists were completely banned from the battlefield—reporters are traveling side by side with the soldiers that are invading Iraq. In a setting where journalists are not only in constant close personal contact with the soldiers, but also dependent upon them for their physical safety, it is inevitable that they will not feel comfortable criticizing the actions of the troops...
Assistant press secretary Malcolm Kilduff took the podium in a stark hospital classroom and, reading off a scrap of paper that fluttered with his hand, announced, "President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1 o'clock Central Standard Time today, here in Dallas." I remember wondering how anything as exuberant as the Kennedy Administration could end in such a simple sentence. Around the corner in his makeshift office, Kilduff sat mute, weeping. "Can you tell me anything more?" I asked as gently as I knew how. He tossed the announcement paper at me, then he whispered, "Oh, that...
...citizens of Saddam's horrifying regime?which only Tony Blair articulated effectively during a U.N. debate marked by the cynical opportunism of all parties involved?ring hollow when voiced by the Bush camp. Making war to bring peace is a hard sell, especially when TV images provide stark reminders of the real human costs of that conflict. What's more, though the war in Iraq is still in its early stages, the inability of the U.S. and British forces to deliver a swift victory?and the early success militiamen have had in temporarily sidetracking the march to Baghdad?is chipping...
...issue with, aim at, Moore in an essay you can read here. I'll just say that I can't denounce Moore for not persuading fence-sitters at home because I don't think he was trying to - as if any American could be swayed now by evidence less stark than body bags. The Left's prime prankster was engaging in classic browbeatery, in the bullying, exaggerated, often funny right-wing-talk-radio tradition. I wonder why the Left must always be modulated, so sweetly whisperingly NPR, when the Right has made its voice heard by shouting...