The War You Don't See
John Pilger's 2011 investigation into the media's role in war.
John Pilger's 'The War You Don't See' powerful and timely investigation tracing the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq.
As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an 'electronic battlefield' which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims.
John Pilger says in the film: "We journalists... have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. Propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home.
An important difference between embedded (in bed) journalists and investigative journalists is Embedded journalists; the military has full power of control of where you go, how you get there, what you see and when you see it. And lot of instances how you're going to to report.
Rajesh Taylor