The War You Don't See


A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq.

http://www.watchseries-online.com/2010/12/the-war-you-dont-see.html

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