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"Concision" in the US Media (excerpt from Manufacturing Consent)
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From the documentary "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media", Chomsky discusses the practice of 'concision' in framing thought and debate in a democratic society.
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Now Here This: Network Neutrality Is Critical
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Graphic designer Michael Mahaffey, in collaboration with ill.gates, wants you to listen up with his activist video about Net Neutrality. Take action at http://www.savetheinternet.com/
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The Impact Of Media Consolidation On News Content
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A short film exploring the impact of media consolidation on news content and how this affects youth, both as viewers and media makers.
In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called "alarmist" for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly. In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote "in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures own and operate 90% of the mass media" -- controlling almost all of America's newspapers, magazines, TV and...
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Riz Khan - The Role of Media in the USA
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Has the mainstream media in the US replaced serious coverage with "junk news" and tabloidism?
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DeFox America
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FOX News is on a witch hunt. Their goal is simple: to destroy the Obama administration and the progressive movement. They've already forced Van Jones out of the White House. They've badgered Congress into passing unconstitutional measures to defund ACORN. Glenn Beck actually keeps an enemies list on a blackboard that's a regular part of his show.
ACORN is just the beginning. FOX has an enemies list, and they're going to keep destroying progressive champions until we stop them.
Tell your Congressperson: If you vote to extend the "Defund...
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The Advertising Age and the Human Ego
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Intercutting thousands of contemporary and classic television commercials with insights by Stuart Ewen, Jean Kilbourne, Sut JhalIy and others, this film scrutinizes late 20th century American society and its prime inhabitant, Consumer Man. You will never look at an ad the same way again after viewing what critics are calling "the first comprehensive documentary on the cultural impact of advertising in America."
The opening quote reads: "A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for...
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Bill Moyers Essay to Obama on Health Care
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Bill Moyers, the longtime and multi-award-winning American journalist expresses his contempt with the current health care debate's corruption by extremists, and President Obama's lack of gumption towards Republicans and the health care industry.
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GRITtv: The Future of Independent Media
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Independent media is almost a household name these days. But in 1986 when Fairness And Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) launched most people hadn't heard of anything like it. So what's changed in the last two decades? Has the stranglehold of corporate media been loosened? Today, pioneers in the field, Janine Jackson, Program Director of FAIR and co-host of CounterSpin, Steve Rendall, Senior Analyst at FAIR and, Jeff Cohen, director of the Park Center for Independent Media and the author of "Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate...
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Network (1976)
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A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings." Released in 1976, this movie was way ahead of its time. It remains continually relevant as TV news barrels forward into further irrelevance and insanity. From the film: "You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here, you're beginning to believe that the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal. You do, why, whatever the tube tells you: you dress like the tube, you eat like the tube,...
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Wake Up Call
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Wake Up Call compiles the best clips from the most important documentaries into a single presentation that exposes the interlocking and shared ideological interests held by people in the highest positions of power - corporate, governmental, and financial. The film explains the methods used to advance this common ideological agenda, and why it’s so essential for us to come together as a collective and stop it. An ideal crash course for those still unaware of the monumental plight humanity faces today.
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Dan Rather Explains the Problems with Network News
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Former CBS Anchorman, Dan Rather, speaks to an audience about how corporate broadcasters have compromised journalistic integrity by satisfying stockholders, instead of public interests.
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The Propaganda Model of News: The Myth of the Liberal Media
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Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda."
"If you want to understand the way a system works, you look at its institutional structure. How it is organized, how it is controlled, how it is funded." -Noam...
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Spin
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Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public's perception of reality. Take the time to watch it from beginning to end and you'll never look at TV reporting the same again. Tell your friends about it. This extraordinary film released in the early 1990s...
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Luke Rudkowski - 'U.S. media doesn't want truth'
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The mainstream U.S. media isn't helping in the search for truth, says Luke Rudkowski from the social justice movement 'We Are Change'. Discusses a wide variety of issues. A primer to understand why citizen journalism matters and why we can't depend on the mainstream press to inform us.
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Mobilizing Media Reform
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Fed up with a media system that values corporate profits over the interests of the public, Americans are taking action. Mobilizing Media Reform provides an inside look into this growing movement for media reform in the U.S.
This 14-minute video addresses the problems that plague our media system, examines their causes and effects, and suggests ways in which we as citizens can bring about change. Featuring interviews with policymakers, scholars, and activists involved in the fight for media reform, it's a rousing look at one of the most...
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Pentagon Propaganda Scandal Ignored by Mainstream News
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The New York Times has exposed a secret Pentagon campaign to infiltrate the media with pro-war propaganda. The scheme reaches all the way to the Bush White House, where top officials recruited dozens of "military analysts" to spread favorable views of the war via the news. Many of these propaganda pundits didn't reveal that they were working from Pentagon scripts or lobbying for companies seeking to cash in on major military contracts.
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Attack ads: bad for democracy, good for Big Media
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Attack ads may be bad news for our democracy -- but Big Media companies are laughing all the way to the bank, raking in $3 billion in political ads this season.
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Good Magazine: Internet Censorship
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Sex. Ass. Falun gong. Chances are, if you're reading this right now, you don't live in Yemen, Myanmar, or China. Internet censorship can take many forms, from restricting private internet access to blocking searches for politically volatile keywords. Exercise your internet freedom by taking a look at Good magazine's latest Transparency.
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Mickey Mouse Monopoly
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The Disney Company's massive success in the 20th century is based on creating an image of innocence, magic and fun. Its animated films in particular are almost universally lauded as wholesome family entertainment, enjoying massive popularity among children and endorsement from parents and teachers. Mickey Mouse Monopoly takes a close and critical look at the world these films create and the stories they tell about race, gender and class and reaches disturbing conclusions about the values propagated under the guise of innocence and fun. This...
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Noam Chomsky - Why Propaganda Works
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Professor Noam Chomsky speaking on how and why propaganda works. Additional footage added regarding the successful campaign by the Bush Administration to manipulate public consciousness to build support for war, setting up Iraq and Iran as phantom enemies of the U.S., when our true motivations remain obscured by patriotic and fear-based illusions.
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