[GVIDEO]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8383084962209910782&q[/GVIDEO]

"War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged [B]...[/B] [URL="javascript:void(0)"]all [B]»[/B][/URL] the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations."

This video takes on both Republicans and Democrats, and all assorted MSM companies, particularly CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.

My take: the government decides what is news, and the media reiterates it on thier shows. independent journalism is largely dead.

Btw, this isn't an anti-war critique. In truth, it's a strong criticism of the united states government over the last half-century, and a criticism on how journalism has become the fourth-branch of the government, blindly adopting a collectivism mindset and never waivering against the (government) hand that feeds them.

This is seriously worth your time. if you're not drawn into this within the first 3 minutes...then you probably won't understand the rest.