Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Atlanta: Cover: Cover Story: Curt Holman's festival favorites: "WAR AND TRUTH 3 stars. Michael Samstag's slick documentary initially offers a modern history of combat journalists, from World War II reporters to the 'embedded' broadcasters of the current war in Iraq. The interviewees serve as evocative storytellers and the film contains shockingly grisly images of wartime realities, from the South Pacific to Baghdad, that photographers knew would never make the evening news but still deserved public showings.
Having paid an eloquent homage to the dedication of wartime reporters, the film then tries to argue the journalistic shortcomings in reporting the Iraq War. However passionate, this side of War and Truth never presents as powerful an argument as its firsthand accounts of reporting under fire.
Fri., June 16, 4:45 p.m., at GSU Speakers Auditorium."
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