The Control Room

For those people who plan on doing a Media Literacy unit, or possibly current events in the classroom, I recommend watching the documentry "The Control Room". The film is a documentry that reports on the Iraq War, and the American bombings form an Iraq perspective. The film uses footage from Al Jazeera, the Arab's most popular news outlet, demonstrating how the news is not always purely fact and can often be purely perception. The documentry also shows how a newsroom works, and the effort and persistence that is put into making the news look how a company, broadcast station, or a Country wants it to look like.