Surely, they would have gotten word of the fictional war and been able to provide evidence that it never happened.
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Maybe, but would we have believed them or thought their 'evidence' was just propaganda.
Just like these days when some foreign country has a bomb dropped on it, they often claim it was a school or hospital that was bombed, but the country doing the bombing claim that this is just misinformation.
How could we tell the difference between the propaganda and truth, even if your job was to report on the events, you have to go by what people say. Then you have to question the motives of these people.
Even something as simple as an aeroplane flying into a skyscraper in front of thousands of witnesses, invites a multitude of opinions, all biased in their own way. Which is why much of society will never be happy with the 9/11 findings.
Absolutely! It's another example of what a stupid, steaming piece of s**t this movie is.
Boom.
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.
Iraq tried to refute the WMD story.
Libya and Syria tried to refute what the MSM was saying, so in real life as long as the MSM says it happened that's what most of their viewers believe.
This is nothing new.
Look up operation mockingbird.
How could the Albanian government possibly present this evidence to the public this bluff was aimed at? I mean, yes, of course they could possibly complain to the US government (like they did in the movie), but the US government was behind the bluff.
Even in reality news stations fall for fake video clips often enough, I remember one clip from a few years ago from one of the Arab Spring revolutions that claimed it showed unarmed civilians being shot at, filmed by other civilians with a mobile phone. Later (after all mayor TV stations had shown the clip) they found out that it was actually filmed in Spain as a hoax. Mass media can be fooled quite easily, and today with the Internet around it's even more easy than back in 1997, because everybody wants to be the first to bring the news, nobody waits for confirmation and then "reliable" news websites or even TV stations start taking these first, unconfirmed news as confirmed sources.
It would depend on the Albanian government having as much media access, especially in English, as the US government does, to tell its side of the story. So, basically, no.
It is a film but the propaganda target is well chosen. Few people know much about Albania in the USA. Many of those who do know a little know it as a partly Muslim, ex-Communist country. In other words, wide open to demonisation, especially in America.
About ten years after this film came out, Taken was made, in which Albanians were depicted as gangsters on the lookout to sell unsuspecting American girls into white slavery. Just underlining the fact that Albanians can be made into villains from Central Casting if necessary.
Re the Arab Spring, there was an "opposition" character early in the Syrian conflict called "Gay Girl From Damascus" who turned out to be a male from Scotland. Wag The Dog is exaggerated, but not by much.
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