Tuesday, March 25, 2003

The Shock and Awe Show

The Pentagon Presents a New Genre: Hyper-Reality TV

by Richard Goldstein in The Village Voice

As the first bombs fell on Baghdad, George Bush was getting his hair done. We know this because a rogue technician broke protocol by beaming a candid image from the Oval Office to the BBC. Millions of people around the world saw the president primping and squirming, his eyes darting to and fro, for a minute and a half before his here-comes-the-war address.... (Read more)


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