How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists -The New York Times' David Halberstam, the Associated Press' Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and legendary photojournalist Horst Faas, and UPI's Neil Sheehan -- during the early years of the Vietnam War as President John F. Kennedy is secretly committing US troops to what is initially dismissed by some as 'a nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants.' 'When the government is telling the truth, reporters become a relatively unimportant conduit to what is happening,' Halberstam tells us. 'But when the government doesn't tell the truth, begins to twist the truth, hide the truth, then the journalist becomes involuntarily infinitely more important.'
"Самым опасным человеком Америки, которого следует остановить любой ценой" Дэниела Эллсберга назвал советник президента Никсона — Генри Киссенджер. Будучи военным аналитиком и сотрудником Пентагона, противник войны во Вьетнаме Эллсберг в 1971 году предоставил секретные документы газете New York Times. Миллионы американцев узнали, как правительство лгало им об этой войне, Эллсберг был обвинен в шпионаже, обвинители требовали тюремного срока в 115 лет...
There were two wars in Iraq--a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the latter was not. Until now... Independent filmmaker, Emmy-award winningTV journalist, author and media critic, Danny Schechter turns the cameras on the role of the media. His new film, WMD, is an outspoken assessment of how Pentagon propaganda and media complicity misled the American people...
