They will get to see it...because some of these guys have only been told the anti American side of the story.
I'm having a conversation" with a local arts group who presented a documentary "festival" showing" left wing anti American films. These are docs like: The Corporation, Death in Gaza, Hijacking Catastrophe: 9-11, fear and the selling of the American Empire, Bush's Brain, the Yes Men.
When I complained about the one sided selection this is the response I got from the Comrade Direktor and I would appreciate any advice into how to handle it:
"Have you seen any of the films you are referring to? It appears you haven't, since you are mistaken in your characterization of them. The films we have selected to show uncover and present factual information, shocking and often painful realities, and critical analyses that viewers of corporate-controlled mass media (broadcast TV, cable news networks, commercial radio, etc.) would otherwise be denied knowledge of and access to.
The filmmakers whose work we show, whether journalists or artists, are trying to get at the truth. They reveal realities that this government is trying to hide from us, its own citizens, and that corporate media are too cowed or compromised to even seek out, let alone tell us.
The makers of these films are not propagandists, but clearsighted, courageous truthseekers.
Propaganda is not just taking and arguing one side or another. It's certainly not just people you disagree with arguing their side. Propaganda is what regimes in power feed to their subjects to keep them docile and compliant, or fearful and dependent on their protection, or to keep
themselves in power. By contrast, the films we show question the authority of those in power, challenge their lies, stir people up, open their minds, get them thinking. The films we are showing are truthful and thought- provoking, and do not serve the corporate interests represented by the present administration.
"Fairness," as you call it, if by that you mean
balancing this critical truthtelling with more of the lies we're already being fed by the corporate media, or with blatant right-wing fabrications that really ARE propaganda, is not an interest of ours, no, not at all.
There are plenty of places you can find that if that's what you're looking for. We feel no obligation to give equal time to lies."