Balibo
Stars: Anthony Lapaglia, Oscar Isaac, Bea Viegas, Michael Stone | Written by Robert Connolly, David Williamson | Directed by Robert Connolly
I was first made aware of the events that Balibo portrays by the Noam Chomsky documentary Manufacturing Consent. In 1975, the Indonesian military invaded East Timor. Five journalists of the Australian media were covering the invasion – which was basically a massacre, during which time over 180,000 were killed – and eventually lost their lives, killed by the Indonesian army (who maintain to this day that the journalists were caught in the crossfire, rather than executed as the coroner’s report states). Days later, another journalist, Roger East, headed out to East Timor to find out what happened to the Balibo Five. Balibo follows East in his quest for truth.
The Chomsky documentary used the East Timor invasion as an example of the Western media’s disproportionate coverage of potentially unpopular stories – that the invasion,...
Stars: Anthony Lapaglia, Oscar Isaac, Bea Viegas, Michael Stone | Written by Robert Connolly, David Williamson | Directed by Robert Connolly
I was first made aware of the events that Balibo portrays by the Noam Chomsky documentary Manufacturing Consent. In 1975, the Indonesian military invaded East Timor. Five journalists of the Australian media were covering the invasion – which was basically a massacre, during which time over 180,000 were killed – and eventually lost their lives, killed by the Indonesian army (who maintain to this day that the journalists were caught in the crossfire, rather than executed as the coroner’s report states). Days later, another journalist, Roger East, headed out to East Timor to find out what happened to the Balibo Five. Balibo follows East in his quest for truth.
The Chomsky documentary used the East Timor invasion as an example of the Western media’s disproportionate coverage of potentially unpopular stories – that the invasion,...
- 4/19/2011
- by Jack Kirby
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