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The Guardian has this to say about it...
The most startling aspect cf the programme was how convincing the distress of the participants became, even though they kruew that they would suffer no real harm.
Monitoring by a doctor showed that their resting heartbeats had risen by 40%, indicating stress and fear. The Bush administration might object that taking part in any television gameshow would have the same effect but, when one contestant develops hypothermia and another starts to vomit, it’s clear that this has ceased to be pretence.
Dramatising the actions of the interrogators, the show was also very sharp on language. Because “sleep deprivation” is forbidden by the Geneva Convention, the Guantanamo captives are subject to “sleep adjustment”, although the linguistic subtlety of this adjustment maybe lost on the captives. Later at Guantanamo, “suicide” was reclassified as “manipulative self-injurious behaviour”, thereby achieving a steep drop in the suicide rate.
When the show was first announced, it sounded like a nightmare of bad-taste television. In fact, The Guantanamo Guidebook turns out to be an impeccable exercise in liberal journalism: its revelatory intentions are more serious than many TV news bulletins.
Still not sure... I think it's on tonight, isn't it? |
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