this is such a fantastic movie,its right up there with "why we fight".

yeah. love it. i think its available on youtube if anyone is interested. but you didn't hear that here. ::cough::

Well, I'm going to go ahead and get down voted, but I'm just stubborn that way it seems.

The main stream media's epic failure is not adequately covered in this sound bite. The summary at the end talks about the 'truth' finally coming out. All the media hacks talking points all discuss their failure in coverage in the past tense, as though they've corrected themselves. That simply isn't true. The media is still failing as badly as ever at covering anything related to either the Iraq or Afghanistan wars.

So far I'm safe and think we are agreed. I would attest though that the media has not only failed by being too ignorant and lazy in looking at America's policies, statements and decisions. They are also failing just as badly at presenting the situation of the people in Iraq under Saddam's rule. They are failing just as badly at covering any number of human catastrophes happening around the world. Al Jazeera just recently was the only major outlet to cover the revelation from escaped North Korean elite guards that the North's well known program for testing chemical weapons on humans is not limited to adults, but includes testing on children as well. Note the current tense, it means even today there are children somewhere in North Korea in a glass gas chamber being killed with nerve gas while a 'scientist' times how long it takes them to die. Meanwhile CNN can't be torn away from the latest on MJ's funeral plans to bother mentioning anything amiss abroad.

There is a very uncomfortably gray world out there that the mainstream media just can't be bothered to cover because the public can't be bothered to watch. This sound clip looks like it is not so much addressing the problem of bad media coverage, but trying to pretend that the bad media coverage proves that the war in Iraq was evil incarnate. It looks to me like instead of digging deeper to reveal the complexity of the world, it is instead just trying foist an alternative easy answer and simple explanation. In reality, it just proves that the war, good or bad, was covered miserably by the media, and in fact still is being covered miserably by them. To me that makes the media the absolute worst source to base any good/bad decision on.

What's worse, to me a 'documentary' peddling a different set of easy answers and simple explanations is just another part of the bigger problem. That problem being that people are uncomfortable with a complicated world that doesn't have clear cut good or bad solutions. That means people often prefer simple or easy answers to the truth when the truth makes them uncomfortable.

I've now watched the whole video, and my recommendation to others stands, don't bother. You would be infinitely better served spending the 90 minutes this film runs watching old episodes of the Daily Show that you missed.

This is NOT a documentary in the journalistic sense of actually interviewing or even filming any new footage. It is at best a 'research' piece clipping together piles of carefully selected existing news and media clips and stringing them together with commentary. Unless you aren't familiar with what has been presented by the mainstream media over the years, there is NOTHING new to even be seen here. This is a video editorial, and is really nothing more. It's the same style of mashup and commentary that you can find from O'Reilly or Obermann, only this time with Sean Penn providing his take on things.

I must repeat, your much better served watching a couple random episodes of the Daily Show. I guarantee you'll get to see an interview with at least one guest that shares something more interesting and novel than anything you'll find in "War Made Easy"

On YT, only 582 views on part 2. No wonder we've got problems.