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"Just before the election, a film about Iraq hit art house theaters around the country," writes Eartha Melzer. The "Voices of Iraq [5]" documentary came from more than 400 hours of footage from 150 digital video cameras distributed to people around Iraq. Its tone is upbeat; "former Iraqi political prisoners are shown laughing off the stories of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib [6]." The Washington DC-based Iraq Foundation [7], which receives State Department [8] and National Endowment for Democracy [9] funding, assisted the film's producers. The U.S. Army's former PR firm, Manning Selvage & Lee [10], coordinated publicity for the film. Given its timing, tone and connections, Melzer asks if Voices of Iraq was intended "to propagandize the U.S. population."
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/6/diane-farsetta
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/media
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace
[4] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2004%2F12%2F3135%2Fselected-sample-iraqi-voices&linkname=A%20Selected%20Sample%20of%20Iraqi%20Voices
[5] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Voices_of_Iraq_%28movie_2004%29
[6] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Abu_Ghraib
[7] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Iraq_Foundation
[8] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Department_of_State
[9] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=National_Endowment_for_Democracy
[10] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Manning_Selvage_%26_Lee
[11] http://alternet.org/mediaculture/20760/