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The Fifth Estate: Sticks and Stones (2005)

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Posted by Films For Action on Nov. 23, 2007
42 min - Documentary - 2143 Views

This CBC, award winning Fifth Estate mini documentary takes an outside look at the American media and how it has digressed to a shouting match between liberals and conservatives where often big money dictates who is the loudest. This short documentary offers us interviews by prominent conservatives and liberals to help us answer the unstated question, "Why do Americans allow their government to do what it does?"

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