Control Room

Control Room gave us an inside look into the news media of another culture. I think it shows that the media is responsible for what we see in the world and how we view it. In arab countries, at the onset of the Iraq War, they showed images of dead Iraqi citizens and the American war machine. This likely had an effect on the way the arab world viewed the American occupancy in Iraq, the same way American media not showing US casualties had an effect on American sentiment towards the war.

I did like the begining of the film when they pointed out that Al Jazeera is a very controversial media outlet in the middle east. I thought it was interesting that they were banned in many arab countries and yet it is considered by many Americans to be the spokesman for Arab propaganda.