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The Theatre Of War1

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From: Metro : Media & Education Magazine
Date: 20041001
Author:Aoun, Steven

'The theatre of war', he answered, 'and here we are at the stage door!' E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night

According to Amnesty International, 'the war on terror has been bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle'.2 Perhaps that's why commercial television signed up as an honorary member of the coalition of the willing. Given the lack of vision, there was no need to worry about things like intelligibility or accountability. Television still managed to reveal the line we crossed though-the one extending from the pornographic notion of an embedded media to S&M photos taken at torture ...

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