This documentary film is an eye opener and gives an elaboration on the discovery of American media lies. It gives a comparison on how news is delivered to the entire US population and to other countries across the globe. This film offers an outstanding comparison of the US and the international media on the crisis in the Middle East. For instance, it gives an insight overview of how structural alterations in US coverage have reinforced false discernment of the Israeli-Palestinian clash. This fundamental documentary exposes how the foreign policy welfare of the American political leaders work together with the Israeli public relations approaches to exercise a form of authoritative influence on how news in the region is reported to different people across the globe.
This documentary makes use of various professionals and people with first-hand information about the crisis to bring about the exposure. It employs the use of religious figures in the region, media critics, Middle East experts, peace activists and voices of scholars to give credible information on the activities that take place in the Middle East. This is made possible through the use of language, context and framing to expose how the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains secreted in the media. According to this documentary, the American media usually portray Israeli occupation and colonization of the Palestinian territories to be a defensive move and not an offensive one. This is however not the case as exposed by the documentary. The documentary further explores on how US journalists have resorted to carrying out Israeli’s PR campaign. It concludes by raising questions about the morals and the function of journalism and the association between media and politics.
This documentary was produced so as to give a comprehensive analysis of the wrongs that take place in the media world due to influence from the political class. The main audiences of the documentary are people interested in unwinding the truth behind various exposures seen in the media. The main purpose of this documentary is to expose the truth on what actually takes place in the Middle East as far as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is concerned. It also shows how media can be compromised by the political class in order to report only information in their interest.
There are various related media jobs that have been produced on this subject matter. The related works produced mainly cover on the distorted portrayal of different events by the American media especially in the Arab world. They include: “The Truth about Libya: NATO Crimes and Mass Media Lies Exposed”, “Libya/ Incredible media lies” and “The Secret Pakistan BBC Documentary Double Cross Week”. These exposures are no different and mainly revolve around the subject matter of media lies. However, the most interesting thing with the exposures is that media which needs to be independent has been literally pocketed by the political elites and only provide information in their favor.
The documentary features the use of various stylistic elements in both writing and shooting. The producer employed the use of a narrator and captions so as to give a clearer overview of the subject of study. The documentary is also accompanied with quality sound tracks and music which makes it interesting in the entire 79 minutes of play. The producer of this documentary is an American television director and producer with several years of experience in television production. The production of this documentary is based on his numerous years of service in the American media and most of the portrayals in the documentary are from a first person’s point of view with hands-on experience hence making him a credible producer.
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