Hollywood as a total propaganda machine, glamorizing torture, bashing truth telling... jz
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Best Thing of the Day: WikiLeaks Leaks Transcript of Hollywood's Doc on the Online Activists
"We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks" premieres today -- but the transcript hit the internet last night.
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May 24, 2013 |
Beating the entertainment industry in the message control race, Wikileaks leaked the transcript of the new documentary, “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,” one night ahead of its worldwide release. The leaked transcript includes annotations that allege factual errors, misrepresentations and misguided framing in the film, directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney.
An unnamed annotator disputes several over-arching conclusions drawn in Gibney’s film, starting with its title, which implies that Wikileaks “steals secrets.” “In fact, the statement is made by former CIA/NSA director Michael Hayden in relation to the activities of US government spies, not in relation to WikiLeaks,” the annotator writes.
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