[Media-watch] The control room

[David Miller {FMS}]

Source: 
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/winter2004/features/counter_programming.html

"Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com), Al-Jazeera
producers, and 
a U.S. scholar teaching in Cairo has resulted in a documentary, Control Room,

premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. While the American media embedded 
themselves with the American military, Noujaim embedded herself with
Al-Jazeera, and 
the story she and her collaborators tell is fascinating. 

Control Room is a gripping inside look at how Al-Jazeera thinks and works.
It gives you a 
feel for these journalists' humanity, politics and sense of irony. It also
shows how 
seriously they take their ethical responsibility for balance, even as many of
the U.S. 
outlets that preach that value rarely practice it."