Un oscuro scrutare

The US government has co-opted the Fourth Estate. It made the networks buy its spun, whitewashed version of the facts. The government has made sure there are no images that are too upsetting. We don't see the soldiers being hurt or killed. And we don't see Iraqi civilians being hurt or killed. I've been watching this incursion into the Middle East and, being a director, I naturally wonder: Why are they leaving certain things out, and where are they? Even in the case of my movie, where I tried to get these images in, I got redacted

(Brian De Palma)