On 04/06/2015 02:45 PM, Cari Machet wrote:
> scahill was being filmed in the fucking morgue not at the site of the drone
> strike - the persons body was on a slab for fuck sake
>
> ambulance chasing times 1 trillion

The point, which you seem to miss, was to make it real for the audience.
It would have been better to shoot footage at the site of the drone
strike, of course. But I presume that the crew didn't arrive in time for
that. Anyway, by putting Scahill in the shot, they emphasize that he was
there, and actually saw the victims. That could be CGIed, and so the
audience still needs to trust him.

> you humans can give him every fucking award that exists in your arsenal...
> i wont line up
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> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
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>> On 04/06/2015 12:22 PM, Bethany wrote:
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>>> On 06/04/15 12:59 PM, Cari Machet wrote:
>>>> its not a 'claim' watch his film that was up for an academy award
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>>>> there is a scene in mogadishu where he is in the morgue there is a
>>> dead body and him in the scene he is standing right next to it - the
>>> person was hit by a drone strike
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>>>> no journalist gets filmed with dead bodies it is unethical it never
>>> happens
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>>>> perhaps if you were a journalist in the field you would understand
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>>> Absolutely. The first thing any good journalist should think when he's
>>> investigating drone strikes and is permitted to witness the examination
>>> of a body of a victim is "shit, don't film me here, where I am! So
>> gauche!"
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>> You're being ironic, I trust.
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>> I rather think that "Dirty Wars" should have shown lots of remains, and
>> sequences of people looking for little burned bits scattered about.
>> Maybe the film did feature too much of Scahill. He's no Michael Moore.
>> But a scene showing Obama receiving some gift made from a victim's femur
>> would have been priceless :)
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>> <SNIP>
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