Politics of 'fear over vision' explored on British television
New documentary series says danger from Al Qaeda is 'dramatically overstated.'
by Tom Regan | csmonitor.com
The Guardian reported Sunday that documentarian Adam Curtis (who has been called by media critics "the most acclaimed maker of serious television programs in Britain") attacked British television, including the BBC, for its "obsession" with Islamic terrorism. Mr. Curtis says that British TV has done nothing to "dispel myths surrounding Al Qaeda and is too willing to take the government line on the 'high' level of the threat."
...the danger from Al Qaeda has been dramatically overstated. There are certainly terrorists in the world, Curtis says, but not a huge terrorist organization "run by a small man with a beard in a cave." For instance, Curtis says, the group didn't even have a name until early 2001 when the US government decided to prosecute the small group and needed to give it a name in order to use anti-Mafia style laws against it.
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