War Made Easy
Check out the trailer for "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death," the chilling outcome of acclaimed author and columnist Norman Solomon's collaboration with the Media Education Foundation. (Above, Bill O'Reilly, one of those in the movie.) The documentary is based on Solomon's book of the same name and uses archival footage to map the rhetoric of war since the 1960s.
Check out the trailer for “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death,” the chilling outcome of acclaimed author and columnist Norman Solomon’s collaboration with the Media Education Foundation. (At right, Bill O’Reilly, one of those in the movie.) The documentary is based on Solomon’s book of the same name and uses archival footage to map the rhetoric of war since the 1960s. An interview with Solomon is also featured on the jump.
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