A free screening of the documentary “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” will be held at 7 p.m. tonight in 150 Columbia.
The 73-minute film is narrated by actor Sean Penn and is based on media critic and anti-war activist Norman Solomon’s book of the same name.
Based on the contention that the news media consistently kowtow to a warmongering establishment in the nation’s capital, “War Made Easy” aims to expose “organized lying” that has resulted in United States involvement in a succession of wars.
Solomon is the founder of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a politically liberal organization with the goal of “increasing the reach and capacity of progressive and grassroots organizations (at no cost to them) to address public policy by getting them and their ideas into the mainstream media,” according to the organization’s Web site.
After the screening, Solomon will answer questions related to the film via telephone, according to a press release. The showing of the film is sponsored by the radio station KOPT 1600 AM, Eugene Weekly, Concerned Faculty for Peace and Justice, and Eugene Media Action. For more information, visit the film’s Web site at www.warmadeeasythemovie.org.