Film on Abu Ghraib Puts Focus on Paid Interviews
di Michael Cieply The New York Times
Errol Morris, the Oscar-winning filmmaker whose latest documentary, “Standard Operating Procedure,” examines the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, is being pressed about a procedure of his own: paying interview subjects.
Mr. Morris said this week that some of the lower-ranking soldiers who were convicted of tormenting inmates at Abu Ghraib in Iraq were paid for their time, in which they recount events at the prison in detail and describe a wayward environment that led to the excesses.
“I paid the ‘bad apples’ because they asked to be paid, and they would not have been interviewed otherwise,” he said in a statement. [...]
di Michael Cieply, articolo completo (9187 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 26 aprile 2008
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