The force of his film is in its contention that the colossal scale of civilian casualties is, within the grammar of news, downgraded in importance so that it doesn't figure as news at all, but as all-but-invisible deep background to be ignored.
Pilger assembles an impressive range of interviewees, including ‘embedded’ war correspondents and whistleblowers.
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