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The Tampa crisis, also known as the Children Overboard has also successfully presents that the politicians have the power over the media and media have the power to change the facts to manipulate the public and demonstrating that prevailing representation of people and politics at a given time is a function of power instead of truth as Children Overboard was an Australian political argument involving public allegations by Howard government in 2001, which refuge seekers had thrown children overboard in a presumed strategy to safe rescue and passage to Australia. It was during the days of the election campaign had just begun. This is the similar situations with the film of "Wag the Dog", where both of them were trying to won the election therefore using the power of media to manipulate the public. During a speech where John Howard states "We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they will come" This statements resonates the general Australian publics as he knew exactly what the public wants to hear, this highlighted that the politicians could always successfully manipulate the general public, in order to achieve the results that they wanted.
However, in the film of "Wag the Dog", the director using mid-shots of a group of people meeting in a dim and dark lighting room which emphasising the secret and undercover nature of the meeting. The tracking shots of camera follows the movement and activity of this group, editing and use of jump cut shots show unexpected but deliberate rapid transitions from one shot to another. This shows that the group is working in secrecy, dark lighting keeping a sense of mystery reflecting the undercover nature of the task at hand. It sets up a contrast between the truths and reality. In the film, the spin doctors staged the war to distract people's attention from President's sex scandal and managed to make the general public to believe it.