War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 12M
Sinopse
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.
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