Oliver Stone: School Boards ‘Decide to Miseducate’ Kids (Video)
The director says children are more interested in the "horror film" version of the truth than what is taught as history.
Editor’s note: The following video is a clip from a 19-part series filmed at a Truthdig and KPFK co-sponsored event in Los Angeles recently. The discussion features Oliver Stone, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director, and Robert Scheer, Truthdig’s editor in chief. The two talk about “The Putin Interviews,” a new Showtime series by Stone, as well as the published transcript, for which Scheer wrote the foreword. We are publishing one video per day. This is the seventh installment.
The film director says children are more interested in the “horror film” of the truth than what is currently taught as U.S. history in schools.
On Tuesday, watch the next clip in the series, in which Stone discusses the sanctions Congress recently voted to impose on Russia.
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