Talk:The War on Democracy

message: The opening paragraph is suspect though I have not edited it:
[quote]'The War on Democracy is a 2007 documentary film directed by Christopher Martin and John Pilger. Focusing on the political state of Latin America, the film is a rebuke of both the United States's attempt to bring democracy to foreign countries and its war on terrorism. The film was first released in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2007.'[/quote]
The film does not “rebuke” America’s attempt to bring democracy to other countries, it rebukes America’s intrusion into other countries already established democracy, because they set up puppet dictators who agree to let America buy out privatised companies, thus draining finance from the county’s coffers and distributing it only to the already rich! The whole point of the documentary is that America is NOT even trying to bring democracy to these countries!
The opening paragraph seems written with the intention of prejudicing people against the film before they even have seen it. 
-Mat Cobb 12th July 2007.
:I've replaced it with a more neutral wording. Hopefully my replacement doesn't pre-judge the film in the way the previous wording did, but also does not take a pro-film/anti-American POV. You can check the diff yourself to see what I actually changed. Cynical 14:21, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Note on neutrality of article

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replies: text: Since the copyright owner has chosen to make the entire documentary available online, then no, I wouldn't have thought so.  Also, given that they have, shouldn't a link to the documentary be made available somewhere more prominently (perhaps in the side bar)?  For the moement, I've added it under the External Links section.  (I couldn't see the other link that the above commenter was referring to - perhaps it has been removed.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.53.44 (talk) 10:09, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:War-on-democracy.jpg

message: Why has the multi-paragraph synopsis that used to be present in this article been removed?  Here is an earlier version that included it: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_War_on_Democracy&diff=268219664&oldid=265081670.  Okay, if the synopsis needed cleaning up - but why remove it completely?
Also, didn't the Reception section used to be longer? 185.55.60.122 (talk) 17:26, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Synopsis? 

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