Wow, clicked on rockinroosters msnbc feed, and a North Korean film is on - Propaganda

[Mika]

http://blog.livenewschat.tv/rockinroosters/

You can watch it here too ...

http://www.youtube.com/user/sabineprogram

Seems to be based on Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent (and other books of his) andf some Zinn mixed in.

[Mika]

1. Ouch. Kinda sucks to get some real info from a N.K. documentary.

[leveymg]

2. If that's propaganda, I'm a chicken. Watch it, make up what's left of your own mind.

It seems to be an English-language documentary remade with Korean subtitles and narrator. It's then been remade, again, with English-language "translation." You'll hear the English-language original underneath it occasionally when a scene changes. Just a guess, but it was originally a British TV documentary.

While it may have been re-edited, much of this is a sophisticated analysis and indictment of western propaganda, imperialism. and mass consumer culture.

Sort of an anti-propaganda parallax where two competing dimensions exist simultaneously on the same plane.

[Mika]

3. Yep. I'm enjoying it thoroughly.

Chomsky and Zinn seem to be the basis of the script. It's very good.