A polished and well-presented news magazine with indepth, reporter-driven stories. It tackles America's global image problem by focusing on "soft security issues" like military programs providing much-needed humanitarian assistence in Africa and Asia. It's great that part of the US military's enormous budget is spent doing good deeds. But its a bit disconcerting to hear such projects referred to as "pre-emptive first strikes" against terrorism. So much for American altruism.
I'm wary of applying the "documentary" tag to a news magazine such as this. I'm also wary of a program which so earnestly seems to be trying to foster a better image of the country for its own citizens. As an expat living across the pond and acutely aware of America's global image problem, I feel the promo material here somewhat misrepresents what I actually heard.
But if long newsy features are your thing, there is lots of interesting information here and it's nice to hear from Colin Powell again at the end.
Comments for "Beyond Fear: America's Role in an Uncertain World "- A Documentary Special
Produced by Simon Marks, Kristin McHugh, Keith Porter
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David Swatling
Posted on June 08, 2007 at 10:54 PM | Permalink
Review of "Beyond Fear: America's Role in an Uncertain World "- A Documentary Special
A polished and well-presented news magazine with indepth, reporter-driven stories. It tackles America's global image problem by focusing on "soft security issues" like military programs providing much-needed humanitarian assistence in Africa and Asia. It's great that part of the US military's enormous budget is spent doing good deeds. But its a bit disconcerting to hear such projects referred to as "pre-emptive first strikes" against terrorism. So much for American altruism.
I'm wary of applying the "documentary" tag to a news magazine such as this. I'm also wary of a program which so earnestly seems to be trying to foster a better image of the country for its own citizens. As an expat living across the pond and acutely aware of America's global image problem, I feel the promo material here somewhat misrepresents what I actually heard.
But if long newsy features are your thing, there is lots of interesting information here and it's nice to hear from Colin Powell again at the end.