Media Imperialism

In the documantary titled "The Power of Nightmares (Part-3 Shadow In The Caves)" shown in the class, this episode addresses the actual rise of al-Qaeda. Curtis argues that, after their failed revolutions, bin Laden and Zawahiri had little or no popular support, let alone a serious complex organisation of terrorists, and were dependent upon independent operatives to carry out their new call for jihad. The film instead argues that in order to prosecute bin Laden in absentia for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, US prosecutors had to prove he was the head of a criminal organisation responsible for the bombings. They find a former associate of bin Laden, Jamal al-Fadl, and pay him to testify that bin Laden was the head of a massive terrorist organisation called "al-Qaeda". With the September 11th attacks, Neo-Conservatives in the new Republican government of George W. Bush use this created concept of an organisation to justify another crusade against a new evil enemy, leading to the launch of the War on Terrorism.

The media imperialism is a theory stating that smaller or weaker countries are losing their indentity or being swallowed up by bigger countries due to force feeding media from larger countries. From this video clip, U.S. is the larger countries which tries to attack Iraq which is weaker country by using the dirty trick to make a reason to attack their enemy for getting benifits from this matter. They control the media to spread only the news that is benefit to themselve.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_power_of_nightmares#Part_3:_.22The_Shadows_in_the_Cave.22