Originally Posted by djugurba

Give it a try. It's a very interesting look at the human people who work at al jazerra and their coleagues in the world media at the coalition media center at CENTCOM during the 'major combat operations' portion of the Iraq war. It's worth the couple buck rental for sure. Don't lump it in with MM's stuff. It's not an america hating rant by any stretch.

Like I said, some of the deleted scenes provide a lot of interesting insight:

One of the best is an outake from MSNBC. One of their reporters is taping a wrap-up for what we can assume has been a video segment for Hardball w/Chris Matthews. He signs off by saying he's in 'Quat-tar'. He wants to re-tape it, because he thought he said the name of the country a little too much like Guitar. However, the producer gets word via telephone link that he is to re-tape the segment using the pronunciation 'Gutter'.... because that's what the anchor says, and so he must be consistent. His disgust, and that of his producer, is evident- and it's a very interesting minute of tape.

Another segment has the CENTCOM media relations guy beating around the bush with several reporters as to the location of the troops in/around/near the airport and/or baghdad. The group is unimpressed with his answers. He walks away, only to be run up upon by a correspondent for Fox News, to whom he delivers a very different report, this one with specifics.

The last one shows the first several minutes of the Al Jazerra director's visit to NYC for the film opening. His impressions are interesting.