Las Vegas Mercury: Control Room

Las Vegas Mercury: Control Room: "Whatever your views on the Iraq conflict, Control Room offers eye-opening insights you won't want to miss.
Maybe you believe that Operation Iraqi Freedom was a just war, justified by its satisfying result--the liberation of 23 million oppressed people from a ruthless tyrant.
Or perhaps you consider it a disastrous, preemptive act of unprovoked aggression whose costs, in money and human lives, make it the most unforgivable atrocity since Vietnam.
Either way, Startup.com co-director Jehane Noujaim's (photo) new documentary, about how the satellite news channel Al Jazeera covered the war, raises troubling issues about how sophisticated our Orwellian Big Brother has become in manipulating modern media to control our world view. "


By Anthony Allison