'Shock and Awe' tells story of Knight Ridder pre-Iraq war coverage
(CNN) - Key Bush administration officials essentially play themselves -- through the extensive news clips used -- in "Shock and Awe," a movie which documents the run-up to the Iraq war, and Knight Ridder's heroic role in vigorously probing the motivations behind it -- in a pretty banal, heavy-handed manner.
Director Rob Reiner takes a supporting part for himself as editor John Walcott, who prods his two ace reporters, Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel (played by Woody Harrelson and James Marsden, respectively) to keep pushing their sources and not be "stenographers for the Bush administration."
Walcott also recruits the well-connected columnist Joe Galloway (Tommy Lee Jones, in a too-small role), who assists in digging up whistle blowers. In the process, the newspaper chain's D.C. bureau often stood alone in its reporting, while outlets like the New York Times -- led by reporter Judith Miller -- assisted Bush officials in making their case.
Read more at: https://www.ksat.com/entertainment/shock-and-awe-tells-story-of-knight-ridder-preiraq-war-coverage
Anything by Rob Reiner I'd boycott; but nonetheless, this sounds like an interesting premise for a movie. I had not heard anything about this.
