The entire documentary is worth a watch, but it's not even handed though.
The guy takes Dan Rather seriously, though, and that man is a fraud, who got caught knowingly using fraudulent documents to implicate GW Bush's service in the National Guard, and got caught by the nascent blogsphere citizen journalist movement of the early 2000s, before social media ruined the scene. There are a ton of other things to dislike GW Bush for without falsifying documents.
And saying the "cartoon journalists" at Fox while thinking there is a "respectable media" that just got duped... that distinction, let us say....doesn't exist. They are all cartoon journalists.
I think the man has to hold on to some piece of driftwood of his reputation as a journalist.
A little over halfway through, it really stopped being about media failures/bias. The further on I get into this documentary, the more it becomes propaganda itself, the way it lingers long over the civilians killed in war. Civilians are always killed in a war. He keeps pulling on the heartstrings with the carnage as much as the carnage of 9/11 was used to justify (wrongly I admit) the invasion of Iraq.
Worse, while he's right about the coups "for democracy" he totally neglects that it was mostly in response to Soviet efforts to create commie governments worldwide. Both sides of the Cold War did terrible things in this regard. Not even handed at all.
The entire documentary is worth a watch, but it's not even handed though.
The guy takes Dan Rather seriously, though, and that man is a fraud, who got caught knowingly using fraudulent documents to implicate GW Bush's service in the National Guard, and got caught by the nascent blogsphere citizen journalist movement of the early 2000s, before social media ruined the scene. There are a ton of other things to dislike GW Bush for without falsifying documents.
And saying the "cartoon journalists" at Fox while thinking there is a "respectable media" that just got duped... that distinction, let us say....doesn't exist. They are all cartoon journalists.
I think the man has to hold on to some piece of driftwood of his reputation as a journalist.
A little over halfway through, it really stopped being about media failures/bias. The further on I get into this documentary, the more it becomes propaganda itself, the way it lingers long over the civilians killed in war. Civilians are always killed in a war. He keeps pulling on the heartstrings with the carnage as much as the carnage of 9/11 was used to justify (wrongly I admit) the invasion of Iraq.
Worse, while he's right about the coups "for democracy" he totally neglects that it was mostly in response to Soviet efforts to create commie governments worldwide. Both sides of the Cold War did terrible things in this regard. Not even handed at all.