"War Made Easy" looks at media and the war effort

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"War Made Easy" looks at media and the war effort - 08/17/07

By Doug Cunningham

War Made Easy is a documentary film on America’s war-making history, revealing how Presidents and Pundits keep spinning American working families to death. The film focuses on how deception and propaganda have historically been used to manipulate America into wars and the corporate media has been complicit in that process. Here’s an audio excerpt from the film.

: “DAN RATHER: Scores of American reporters have now joined US military units in
Kuwait as part of the Pentagon's effort to make any war with Iraq what the Pentagon calls
a media-friendly campaign. Another part that effort is on display at the US Military
Command Center in Qatar. A Hollywood set designer was brought in to create a
$200,000 backdrop for official war briefings.

BiILL O’REILLEY: Send us over there guys, let’s get on with it, let’s get it over with.”

MSNBC: “Showdown Iraq. If America goes to war, turn to MSNBC and the experts.”

NORMAN SOLOMAN: “And in many ways the U.S. news media were equal partners with the officials in Washington and on Capitol Hill in setting the agenda for war.”