Network (1976) (excerpt)

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...

4 min

Dan Rather Explains the Problems with Network News

Former CBS Anchorman, Dan Rather, speaks to an audience about how corporate broadcasters have compromised journalistic integrity by satisfying stockholders, instead of public interests.

6 min

Spin: Footage You Were Never Supposed to See (1995)

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...

57 min

POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English

Ron English's billboards force the man on the street to look twice...or maybe three times.

8 min

Mobilizing Media Reform

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...

14 min

Pentagon Propaganda Scandal Ignored by Mainstream News

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...

4 min

Net Neutrality Rock: "Help me become a law!"

Network Neutrality -- or "Net Neutrality" for short -- is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet. Put simply, Net Neutrality means no discrimination. Net Neutrality prevents Internet providers from blocking, speeding up or slowing down Web content...

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Attack ads: bad for democracy, good for Big Media

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

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...

3 min

Mickey Mouse Monopoly (trailer)

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...

5 min

Why Propaganda Works & The Great Question of Our Time | Noam Chomsky

Professor Noam Chomsky explains why propaganda works so well in our modern society and raises one of the most important questions of our time. It's a clip from the classic documentary Manufacturing Consent. Watch the full film here.

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Media Concentration: It's kind of a bad thing

Media giant Rupert Murdoch's recent buy-out of the Wall-Street Journal is just one example in a long history of increasing media concentration in the United States, where just a handful of powerful media conglomerates control 90% of all of the information and news we read...

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Bill Moyers on Media Reform

In a powerful speech legendary journalist Bill Moyers praised the media reform movement as "the most significant citizens' movement to emerge in this new century." With over 3,500 people in attendance Moyers said that the work of activists has "challenged the stranglehold of...

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Whistle Blowers Try to Expose Health Concerns & Get Fired

A perfect example of both, why you can't trust big news organizations to tell you the truth, and why you should stick to organic food whenever possible. This clip is taken from the film "The Corporation". An excellent piece showing the systematic problems with corporations in...

10 min

What is Creative Commons?

What is Creative Commons? It's the future of copyright - a whole new way of sharing and remixing culture. Audio remixed and mashed up by Robin Good, Livia Iacolare and Michael Pick.

3 min

Prometeus - The Evolution of Media? part 2

In the year 2015 People have access to a deep information. However the press as you know it has ceased to exist. The road to 2015 began in the 20th century.

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Prometeus - The Evolution of Media?

Man is God. He is everywhere, he is anybody, he knows everything. This is the Prometeus new world. It all started with the Media Revolution, with Internet, at the end of the last century. Everything related to the old media vanished: Gutenberg, the copyright, the radio, the...

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Conflicts of Interest in News Reporting

Here's an interview on CNN with Normon Solomon, the Executive Director of the Institute of Public Accuracy. He brings up some excellent examples of how the corporate news departments often face many conflicting interests, because of their parent-company's other financial...

5 min

Stop the Big Media Takeover

Almost all private Canadian and American television stations are owned by national media conglomerates and, because of increasing cross-ownership, most of the daily newspapers we read are owned by the same corporations that own television and radio stations. We must also be...

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NCMR 2008: Media reform starts here

The next National Conference for Media Reform will be held in Minneapolis, June 6--8, 2008. Join fellow activists, media makers, educators, journalists, policymakers and concerned citizens in calling for real and lasting changes to our nation's media system.

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CAUGHT: Comcast paying to push public out of Internet debate

Free Press supporters caught Comcast stacking a FCC hearing with paid (and apparently sleepy) seat-fillers so that the public couldn't get in. Don't let Comcast block Internet access like it blocks public debate. Speak out and protect everyone's right to connect. (Doesn't...

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Montel Williams Scolds Tabloid News for Ignoring Reality

For just over three minutes on Saturday morning, TV talk show host Montel Williams owned the hosts of Fox and Friends. A former Marine and Naval officer, Montel lectured the stunned hosts on the stupidity of spending air time on the death of Heath Ledger, rather than covering...

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Breaking news in Congress: Net Neutrality needs YOU

Don't take the Internet for granted. The Internet Freedom Preservation Act (HR 5353) will guarantee Net Neutrality protections for everyone. We must pass this bill to protect everyone's right to connect with one another without being blocked by phone and cable companies. You...

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Big Media is the sickness - IndyMedia is the cure

Indy Media is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and...

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Jesse Jackson at the NCMR 2007

Jesse Jackson speaking at the National Conference on Media Reform in Memphis, TN. January 2007.

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How The News Works

Part 2 of The Corporate Media Survival Guide. How The News works is a closer inspection into the relationships between news agencies and news casters to their corporate shareholders which helps to explain why you shouldn't believe a single word broadcast on the daily news.

3 min

Speak Out Against Media Consolidation!

On Dec. 18, the FCC voted 3-2 to remove an important protection for diverse voices in our media. Chairman Kevin Martin pushed through the decision, which will allow big media firms to combine both a newspaper and TV or radio stations in the same market, despite overwhelming...

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Is Junk Media Making You Sick???

Media junk food is mind pollution. As waves of erratic, mindless info-toxins increasingly lay siege to a battered mental landscape, our mental pores become clogged, cluttering our capacity to think and to feel empathy. And so we find today that Junk Media is to our mental...

3 min

Not The Daily Show, With Some Writer

What do the writers of the Daily Show think of the ongoing writers' strike? If only there were some way to find out like, I don't know... clicking on the image to your left. It's so crazy, it might just work!

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My Urban Report Interviews Chris Rabb of Afro-Netizen

Talking about the importance of new media in the lead-up to the 2008 elections. The importance of black American voices being represented in the media, whether through established channels or channels they've set up themselves. Afro-netizen.com is a great alternative news...

2 min

Five Words for Free Media

We want to be free! All Power to the People. Words taken from the National Conference on Media Reform 2007 in Memphis, TN.

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Bernie Sanders at the NCMR 2007

Senator Bernie Sanders speaking at the National Conference on Media Reform in Memphis, TN.

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Van Jones at the NCMR 2007

Van Jones' closing speech at the National Conference on Media Reform 2007, which was held in Memphis, TN. One of the best from the conference.

27 min

Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2003)

Orwell Rolls Over In His Grave expresses ideas that will never be heard in mainstream media. It is the consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where...

180 min

Save the Internet!

From its beginnings, the Internet has leveled the playing field for all. Everyday people can have their voices heard by thousands, even millions of people. The SavetheInternet.com Coalition -- representing millions of Americans from all walks of life -- is working together to...

4 min

Tell Congress: Stop Big Media

Kevin Martin, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has been keeping a secret from the American people. He wants to push through plans to remove decades-old media ownership protections. And he's trying to do it without public scrutiny. Senators Byron Dorgan and...

2 min

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative...

157 min

Fox Attacks: Behind the Scenes

A behind the scenes look at how Brave New Films, MoveOn.org and the grassroots came together to help stop both Fox News Democratic presidential debates.

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Brave New Films: At The Forefront Of A New Media Revolution

A quick look at Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films, their campaigns and successes. Touches on how the new independent media movement being driven by the internet is shaping public discourse and paving the way for a more balanced, democratic media that holds governments and...

3 min

FOX Attacks! Iran

Shows how FOX news is repeating the same distortions and fear mongering they did before the Iraq war. If it's not clear already, FOX is the front-leader in pushing war propaganda for the Bush/Cheney administration, and Iran is next on the list.

3 min

Independent Media in a Time of War (2003)

Part scathing critique, part call to action, this film is composed of a speech given by Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! illustrated by clips of mainstream media juxtaposed with rare footage from independent reporters in Iraq. "Independent media has a crucial...

30 min

Weapons of Mass Deception (2004)

There were two wars going on in Iraq - one was fought with armies of soldiers, bombs and a fearsome military force. The other was fought alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists and propaganda techniques. One war was rationalized as an effort to find and...

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