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It is because of this legacy, and knowing in my blood and soul how important it is, that I'm especially pleased to learn that the Academy Award winning actor, Timothy Robbins, is keeping the ideal of socially and politically conscious theatre alive in America with the film version of his anti-Bush play, "Embedded/Live."
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The major news organisations are bitterly attacked in the play for slavishly following the US military's official line in their reports from correspondents embedded with soldiers in Iraq.
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Britain may currently have more journalistic integrity in its media, "but you should be careful because I believe there's an effort to send your journalistic integrity down the same road as ours went," he told a press conference in Venice.
"That has to do with who owns -- and how many own -- a newspaper, or media outlets that can inform opinion."
At one point, he says, the danger is that "debate stops and becomes a rhetoric, it becomes propaganda".
Robbins, who won an Oscar for Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River" and a best actor award at Cannes for Robert Altman's "The Player", has been "doing theatre" since the age of 12, and later worked for a theatre company in New York before turning to film.
"For me its a place where I can learn. Go back to school. Challenge myself. Doing work without asking permission, I can set my own agenda. I don't have to raise millions and millions of dollars" for a film.
"Embedded/Live" will shortly begin an eight-state tour of small town America, where support for the war was at its greatest, before the bodies of almost 1,000 US soldiers began coming home. Yahoo News
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