>
> >The only problem with this is that for the majority of the people who
> >watched the show, what they saw was reality. We know better,
> >but they don't. So now people all over have this view of how things
> >went, and who these people are that at best is inaccurate, and at
> >worst is blatantly wrong.
>
> Exactly, imagine if the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora" had fictionalized an
> invasion of Japan by the US that then prompted the Japanese to bomb Perl
> Harbor. There is "artistic license" and there is "artistic license."
>
> The technique is actually used in propoganda films quite a bit and is known
> as "the big lie" and takes a huge untruth and wraps around it the very thin
> veneer of truth so that the victim swallows the complete package.
>
> --Chuck
One wonders why those most defamed by the picture - Gates, Jobs, etc - haven't
sued yet.
--
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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