At the Nov. 11 meeting between top Hollywood executives and White House
senior adviser Karl Rove, the chairman of the Academy of Television Arts
and Sciences proposed that videocassettes be rained down on Afghan
forces in much the same way as propaganda leaflets were dropped on enemy
forces in prior wars.
As reported by the current edition of the The
Nation, the Academy’s Bryce Zabel remarked, “Why not ask some of our
very best filmmakers to do a three-minute piece on the theme ‘My Country
‘Tis of Thee’ and then compile them together on video and airdrop them
over areas hostile to us?” Zabel told the magazine that that was just
“one idea of about twenty” that he brought to the meeting.
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