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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 08:47 PM
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The Control Room is on CBC Newsworld this evening. Worth watching?
I've heard good things about it, but I don't know much about it.
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blueblitzkrieg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 08:47 PM
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1. DEFINITELY worth watching!!! n/t
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 08:48 PM
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3. Holy crap, that was fast.
Thanks for the opinion. How come, though?
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blueblitzkrieg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 08:51 PM
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5. It's just fascinating and gives you a different perspective that
American MSM will not show.

You can read more about the movie here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391024/
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 09:07 PM
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8. Great. Thanks very much! n/t
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blueblitzkrieg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 09:09 PM
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12. Sure thing!
:hi:
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phusion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 08:48 PM
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2. Absolutely.
You'll see the scene w/ the Iraqi boy, very emotional...agh. It still gives me chills.

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Stop_the_War Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 08:48 PM
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4. It's a good film...
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 08:54 PM
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6. Great film. Shows how things cold go people-to-people. Excellent
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chookie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 08:57 PM
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7. Damned gloating Canadians!
Are you just rubbing it in that people in the US don't have programming like this, because Mr Murdoch wants to keep us on message?

Just joking.

Do watch. I rented it and thought it was very interesting, certainly worth getting a look at Al Jazeera that Bush doesn't want you to get.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 09:09 PM
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11. Ah, so it IS about Al-Jazeera.
The info on the CBC site seemed incomplete.

Seriously, is there no way for you to access foreign broadcasting?
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chookie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 09:16 PM
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13. Seriously
Maybe in some border states you can pick stuff up, but apart from a little bit of BBC, there is not much.

There may be some people who have the old kind of satellites which can get more kinda of programming, but not your average viewer.

We have a few satellite stations, Free Speech TV and World Link that might conceiveably show Control Room, but they have not as yet.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 09:07 PM
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9. Yup, very much worth watching.
Edited on Sun Feb-20-05 09:07 PM by ET Awful
n/t
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 09:09 PM
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10. Yes, it'll show you some you won't get otherwise,
I very much appreciated seeing it. Gave me a better idea of AlJazeera and what they are doing. It was also very interesting, seeing behind the media, seeing varied news media filming the people filming what was seen (or not seen depending on your country) on tv.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 09:19 PM
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14. Thank you, everyone!
You've been very helpful.
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FULL_METAL_HAT Donating Member (673 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 10:52 PM
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15. the show is available online
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1001.htm

unfortunately it looks like there is a problem with their video.

Here's a couple of things to chew on that go along very nicely:

The Control Room comments on this video: "OH DUDE!"
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold/MassacreofCivilians.wmv

And this one is MUST SEE "Power of Nightmares"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1037.htm
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lostnfound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 12:26 AM
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16. Great movie, well worth watching. nt
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