Live from Baghdad is a television movie produced in 2002 by HBO. Directed by Mick Jackson and written by Robert Wiener (based on the book by Robert Wiener). 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For alternate meanings of HBO, see HBO (disambiguation). ...
Michael Keaton stars as CNN on-location producer Robert Wiener in Baghdad, Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. The movie focuses on the news media's (primarily CNN's) coverage of the war. Fundamentally an action/drama, the characters grapple with the ethics and implications of 24-hour journalism in the days leading up to and during the United States led bombing of Baghdad. Michael Keaton, (born September 9 or September 5, 1951 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. ... Bold textTHIS ARTICLE DOES NOT PRESENT A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL VIEW. IT PRESENTS A BIAS AND IS NOT IMPARTIAL OR NEUTRAL!!!!!!!!!!! CNN or Cable News Network is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfeld [1] [2] (although he currently is not recognized in... A street map of Baghdad Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Baghdad Baghdad (بغداد) is the capital of Iraq and the Baghdad Province. ... C Company, 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, 1st UK Armoured Division The Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. ... Bold textTHIS ARTICLE DOES NOT PRESENT A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL VIEW. IT PRESENTS A BIAS AND IS NOT IMPARTIAL OR NEUTRAL!!!!!!!!!!! CNN or Cable News Network is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfeld [1] [2] (although he currently is not recognized in... A street map of Baghdad Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Baghdad Baghdad (بغداد) is the capital of Iraq and the Baghdad Province. ...
Given his journalistic background, a reader might have expected "Live From the Battlefield" to be a pastiche of 800-word dispatches cobbled together or, worse, an air-filling flight of live-television filibuster.
"I lived my youth in Bluff, a gale-lashed town at the bottom end of New Zealand, which is at the bottom end of the world," he begins, a promising start to the obligatory early-years stuff that is often the ballast of memoirs.
Arnett stands up fine to the charge that Saddam Hussein manipulated him in Baghdad, but he is silent on the extent to which the Pentagon manipulated his colleagues, turning the press, and in particular his employer, CNN, into a megaphone for its self-glorifying version of the gulf war.
The HBO film Live from Baghdad is the story of how Wiener and CNN overcame adversity to become the only network to continue broadcasting from Baghdad during the U.S. air strikes.
Live from Baghdad features strong acting, especially Bruce McGill’s flamboyant portrayal of Peter Arnett, and very good use of stock footage of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the U.S. bombing of Baghdad.
Unfortunately, since Live from Baghdad was adapted by Wiener from a self-penned autobiography, I’m not convinced that his egomania is completely under control.
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