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- Subject: New Video on Media: Lines in the Sand
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:46:28 GMT
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- Lines: 101
-
- I recently had the opportunity to review this
- video which I think is an excellent resource
- for people to know about. Excellent short video
- perfect as a discussion starter in a classroom
- or group. It also has a companion classroom study
- guide available, which is very useful and includes
- good teaching aids.
-
- Jennifer Smith
- Middle East facilitator, PeaceNet
- pnmideast@igc.apc.org
-
-
- PRESS RELEASE
-
- For more information call
- Peter Wirth (315) 476-3396
-
-
- Lines in the Sand
-
- "Modern wars are not won and lost on battlefields but in front
- of television screens, where attitudes and perceptions are
- bought and sold." With footage from Vietnam, the invasions of
- Grenada and Panama, Lines in the Sand illustrates how the
- Pentagon increasingly manipulates the news we see. Michael
- Deaver, who served as President Reagan's principal media
- advisor, said that the Persian Gulf war was such a propaganda
- success that a team of public relations experts could not have
- planned it better.
-
- This 12-minute video essay explores how information was
- controlled and news managed during Operation Desert Storm to
- keep the disturbing realities of war from affecting the
- conscience of the U.S. public. Lines in the Sand raises crucial
- questions concerning the ways that limited access to
- information shapes public opinion. Footage shot in Baghdad by
- producer and writer Ed Griffin-Nolan shows us the faces of the
- victims we did not see on the nightly news.
-
- An interview with a geology professor who lost his wife and
- four daughters in the Ameria bomb shelter along with hundreds
- of other civilians puts a human face on a war that was
- skillfully and intentionally kept from our view. "Victory - but
- victory at what price?" is the troubling moral question that
- Lines in the Sand leaves us to ponder.
-
- Now in use in hundreds of schools and churches in the US and
- Canada, Lines in the Sand premiered in the 35th London Film
- festival last November. Steven Bode, an organizer of the
- festival wrote "their analysis of the media coverage of the
- war and the questions it left unanswered is sharp, insightful,
- and sobering." More recently, it aired on PBS in New York,
- Washington, DC, San Francisco, and a number of smaller cities.
-
- Randy Pitman of the Video Librarian gave Lines in the Sand a
- "Four Star - Editor's Choice" rating. He wrote that Lines in the
- Sand reminds us that not only were the human costs of the war
- neither calculated nor reported - they were ignored on
- purpose." Lander's Film and Video Review rated Lines in the
- Sand in their "Highly Recommended" category.
-
- Dr. Charles Kimball of Furman University in South Carolina,
- whose book Angle of Vision: Christians and the Middle East was
- selected to be the principal text for the 1992 ecumenical
- study of the Middle East writes:
- "I am hopeful that your video will be used by many in these
- local church programs since it illustrates some of the issues
- and concerns I raise in my book. It is an important resource
- complementing my book."
-
- Professor William Griffen in the Education Department at SUNY
- Cortland writes, "Congratulations on your video - Lines in the
- Sand. I have used it with my college students and teachers and
- the feedback was dramatic. Questions and issues either
- minimized or ignored in the mass media were developed
- intelligently, making Lines in the Sand one of the most
- effective audio-visual aids I have used in the past decade."
-
- Gabrielle Tinto, an eighth grade student at Levy Junior High
- School in Syracuse wrote the following letter after viewing
- the video in her social studies class: "Overall I liked the video
- we were shown in class. It showed a side of war I hadn't seen
- before. For myself and others who didn't have relatives in the
- war, it seemed very distant. The US went in, bombed a few
- bases, showed their guns and the opposing side surrendered,
- neat quick and clean. What I never thought about were the
- hundreds of people, civilians, who were being killed, family
- members lost, homes burnt down . . . I gained a new perspective
- of war from watching this video."
-
- Lines in the Sand is produced by Ed Griffin-Nolan, former
- media director for Witness for Peace, and edited by Laura J. E.
- Marini. Available for $21.95, or $37.95 complete with a study
- guide. Send orders to Griffin-Wirth Associates, 168 Parkway
- Drive Syracuse, New York 13207, or call (315) 476-3396.
- Prices include postage and handling.
-
- Recommended for schools (junior high through college),
- libraries, religious organizations and community groups.
-
-