The film US TV networks dare not show

The attitudes that people in the US have towards ‘terrorism’ at the moment wouldn’t seem out of place in an episode of Star Trek. Ask most Americans about their enemy in the ‘war on terror’ and they will have at best a very vague idea and in most cases no idea at all about who that enemy is, where they come from and what they want. They will bluster and talk about ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ although their freedom is being sacrificed to their fear and their democracy is based on such a lack of information that it is meaningless. The fact that none of the US networks is prepared to show Adam Curtis’ film “The Power of Nightmares” illustrates just how hard the media in the US is prepared to work to avoid carrying real information to the American people. It’s a reminder to those of us enjoying a free(ish) media that any American influence in that media can only be a malign one.
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