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From the Ted Talk by Jehane Noujaim: My wish A global day of film
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Did a stint at MTV, made a film called "Startup.com," and I've done a ______ of music _____. But in 2003, when the war in Iraq was about to start, it was a very surreal _______ for me, because before the war started, there was kind of this media war that was going on. And I was watching television in New York, and there seemed to be just one point of view that was coming across, and the ________ went from the US _____ Department to ________ troops. And what was coming across on the news was that there was going to be this clean war and precision ________, and the Iraqis would be greeting the Americans as liberators, and throwing _______ at their feet in the streets of Baghdad. And I knew that there was a __________ other story that was taking place in the Middle East, where my parents were. I knew that there was a completely other story being told, and I was ________, "How are people supposed to communicate with each other when they're getting completely different messages, and nobody knows what the other's being told? How are ______ supposed to have any kind of common _____________ or know how to move together into the future? So I knew that I had to go there. I just wanted to be in the center. I had no plan. I had no funding. I didn't even have a camera at the time — I had somebody bring it there, because I ______ to get access to Al Jazeera, George Bush's favorite channel, and a place which I was very curious about because it's disliked by many governments across the Arab _____, and also called the mouthpiece of Osama Bin Laden by some people in the US government.
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Original Text
Did a stint at MTV, made a film called "Startup.com," and I've done a couple of music films. But in 2003, when the war in Iraq was about to start, it was a very surreal feeling for me, because before the war started, there was kind of this media war that was going on. And I was watching television in New York, and there seemed to be just one point of view that was coming across, and the coverage went from the US State Department to embedded troops. And what was coming across on the news was that there was going to be this clean war and precision bombings, and the Iraqis would be greeting the Americans as liberators, and throwing flowers at their feet in the streets of Baghdad. And I knew that there was a completely other story that was taking place in the Middle East, where my parents were. I knew that there was a completely other story being told, and I was thinking, "How are people supposed to communicate with each other when they're getting completely different messages, and nobody knows what the other's being told? How are people supposed to have any kind of common understanding or know how to move together into the future? So I knew that I had to go there. I just wanted to be in the center. I had no plan. I had no funding. I didn't even have a camera at the time — I had somebody bring it there, because I wanted to get access to Al Jazeera, George Bush's favorite channel, and a place which I was very curious about because it's disliked by many governments across the Arab world, and also called the mouthpiece of Osama Bin Laden by some people in the US government.
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