Hollywood Teaching

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Hollywood has a long legacy of operating as a marionette for the military-industrial complex and other reactionary causes, from attacking labor unions to vilifying domestic dissent as unpatriotic and communistic. Its engagement with right-wing causes is widely documented. For example, it is no secret that the Hollywood film industry used motion pictures as a propaganda weapon during World War I, World War II, the Korean War and every American war since then. And who can forget the lies told about Jessica Lynch in the two-star movie, "Saving Jessica Lynch" made in 2003 at the height of the Iraq war. The movie was pitched to the public as a true story, when in fact, it was pernicious mendacity falsely etched on celluloid.

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