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Statement from Sut Jhally, co-director
Posted January 12, 2008
As a result of the horrific events unfolding in Gaza, the Media Education Foundation is making its 2003 film Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict available online FOR FREE.
We are taking this unprecedented step to offer critical perspective on how the U.S. news media are covering this crisis.
You can either watch or download the film for free on this site.
While the film was made in 2003, its analysis of U.S. news coverage of the Middle East has never been more relevant or more urgent. The film traces a longstanding pattern of media bias in the U.S., providing much needed context for understanding American news coverage of events in Gaza now.
The film has elicited widespread praise for its clear-eyed analysis of both the conflict and the often one-sided way it has been presented to Americans over the years.
"The best, least biased presentation we have of all the issues involved. A must-see documentary."
-- Chalmers Johnson, author of the Blowback trilogy
"I cannot recommend this documentary too highly. Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land should be required viewing for every student, for every taxpayer who is subsidizing the Israeli military machine, for every citizen in the United States."
-- Robert McChesney, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy
"Painstakingly stripping away the myths and inaccuracies regularly passed off as truth by the U.S. media, this film not only reveals the motivations and methods of those responsible for skewing the picture, but also manages to present the most concise and accurate account of the history and implications of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the role that the U.S. has played in the continuation of that conflict that I have seen. … This is a very important piece of work that challenges the viewer to think twice before accepting a version of the world that owes more to the special interests of a powerful elite than to any notion of freedom of the press."
-- Donna Baillie, filmmaker, Women in Black
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