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Analysis of the Pilger documentary ‘Breaking the silence’.

This media text is a documentary by John Pilger. From watching the first fifteen minutes of the documentary and from knowing a little about John Pilger’s particularly anti American attitudes (so much so that people now believe the word Pilger should appear in the dictionary under: to have an anti American view point), I would suggest the purpose of this text is to reveal the supposed truth behind the war on Iraq, and to promote an anti-American sentiment.

Before the documentary began the TV voice over announced this was both special and hard-hitting, which increased my expectations dramatically. Then the screen when black and bold white letters appeared spelling out the title, ‘Breaking the silence’. This title is effective in many ways when we link it to the subject of the documentary which it’s an exposé on the war on Iraq. This then leads on to the introduction, which is a series of very shocking a...

Posted by: Asare Mabel

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