Shadow in the cave [CR]
by Calvin Seng on Apr.15, 2009, under Media Culture
After watching the documentary — The Power of Nightmares, originally aired on BBC, I have to admit that they were examplifying the right things to us, at least a good example that we could understand what is Media Imperialism about.
Part 3 of the documentary was “Shadow in the cave”. It was about Bush, ex-president of the USA, creating a fake impression that all Afghans are terrorists, and also using that to siege war on Afghanistan. He was controlling the media, could not stop repeating the incident of 911 to the Americans, causing them to worry and fear of terrorism. Hence, forming a special unit that anti terrorism, performing the anti terrorism campaigns throughout the United States.
Not only that, he was assuming that Osama was on the Memo Cave in Afghanistan. He claimed that Osama’s base was at Memo Cave. That special force even illustrated the cave and saying that Osama and his troops were storing ammos and foods in that cave. Ordering soldiers to conquer the mountain, and bombing any cave that the soldiers saw was all he could do.
In fact, he was chasing something that doesn’t even exist. Sacarstically, nothing was found on the cave, and in fact, all the caves found and bombed at that particular mountain, none has what he claimed to be true on the media.
