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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Movies like United 93 and WTC neatly sidestep the fact that they are COMPLETELY exploitative by being well made, acted and directed.
It is absolutely irrelevent whether highly talented directors have successfully dramatised 9/11 and turned those events into good movies: they shouldn't have been made in the first place and just because they are high quality does not exonerate the tackiness of making them.
Stephanie Zacharek (sp) says that this movie depicts the worst moments of our lifetimes.
Nope.
Dropping an atom bomb on Hiroshima and incinerating 200,000 immediately and fatally scalding 60,000 others - that was our most shameful, devastating occurence - not to mantion Nagasaki, of course.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
