Excellent journalism in that it shows how the media can manipulate public opinion based on lies.

This blog post is simply a clip from a 2001 documentary by British BBC filmmaker Adam Curtis titled "Century of the Self" and available online in its entirety here: http://centuryself.blogspot.com/ Curtis' original documentary was quite interesting and well done, in my opinion, although I thought some of the details of his treatment of Anna Freud were questionable. He did a later documentary titled "The Power of Nightmares" that is also interesting, although I had more problems with it overall. (I think it misstates somewhat the nature of the threat posed by terrorist groups like Al Qaeda.) More recently, he has done a documentary titled "The Trap" that I haven't yet viewed in its entirety but which I've found disappointing. ... More »

This should be an eye-opener for all Americans. Hopefully, people will be made more aware of the more subtle lies we've been made to swallow, as well. We need more journalism like this. Too bad the MSM won't report anything like it.

It is always amazing to learn of these examples of fact manipulation. The piece just reminds us of the need to be alert. The spin doctors have been around a long time and they are still here. We like to think we are more wary than our parents may have been but we are not. We are in debt to Media Channel and other sources that reveal the actors behind the curtain.

I have a Mac that has Quicktime and Windows Media Player yet could not get the clip to play. So my recommendation is have a transcript available for us to read. In fact I prefer reading to watching as the former is active the latter is passive and its frustrating to have to not be able to glean some info or wisdom because Google wants something or other I'm not interested in just to see this content.