Reply #6: Another review

[anarchy1999]

http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2004-06-10/film2.html/1/index.html

EXCERPT
The movie lingers over images the American media shy away from--footage of dead children who got in the way of freedom's bullets, soldiers on both sides rendered raw meat in battle--and dares us to turn away. It puts us in the shoes of men and women for whom the war is not something distant and intangible but a bloodbath in their own back yard, which makes them the very definition of embedded journalists. The movie does not judge either side; it only asks that you consider that there's more than one truth.

By Robert Wilonsky :thumbsup:



AND ANOTHER:

http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2004-06-10/news.html

EXCERPT
Control Room, which opened in New York City on May 21 and broke the beloved Film Forum theater's 34-year-old weekend single-screen box-office record, ultimately offers little history about the 8-year-old Al-Jazeera, which sprang out of the ashes of a joint venture between the Orbit radio and TV service and BBC's Arabic Television. It doesn't go into great detail about allegations that Saddam Hussein's intelligence services had operatives working within the network, nor does it chronicle the tenuous relationship between the United States government and Sheik Hamad, the emir of Qatar who finances the network (at, allegedly, an annual loss of $100 million). And it doesn't talk at all about how Al-Jazeera refuses to use the words "suicide bombers" or "terrorism," instead referring to "martyrs" and "acts of violence," as pointed out in a recent Newsday story.

By Robert Wilonsky :thumbsup: