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Fmr NYT Journalist Seymour Hersh Blasts Bin Laden Fairytale, Calls for Corporate Media Shutdown
Fmr NYT Journalist Seymour Hersh Blasts Bin Laden Fairytale, Calls for Corporate Media Shutdown
Abby Martin gives props to world renowned journalist Seymour Hersh, for calling out the abysmal failure of the corporate media in the US, saying that the MSM should fire 90 percent of its reporters and that "not one word" of the bin laden death narrative is true. Read the...
4 min
Seymour Hersh on death of Osama bin Laden: 'It's one big lie, not one word of it is true'
Seymour Hersh on death of Osama bin Laden: 'It's one big lie, not one word of it is true'
Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back
Lisa O'Carroll
Awakening to the Blob: How The Media Mediates Our Lives
Awakening to the Blob: How The Media Mediates Our Lives
Not just a book review of Thomas de Zengotita's Mediated
Maura R. O'Connor
Obama's Justice Department: Trumpeting a New Victory in War on Freedom of the Press
Obama's Justice Department: Trumpeting a New Victory in War on Freedom of the Press
There’s something profoundly despicable about a Justice Department that would brazenly violate the First and Fourth Amendments while spying on journalists, then claim to be reassessing such policies after an avalanche of criticism—and then proceed, as it did this
Norman Solomon
The Society of the Spectacle: Guy Debord's Classic Work Remade into a Mind-Bending Short Film
The Society of the Spectacle: Guy Debord's Classic Work Remade into a Mind-Bending Short Film
Guy Debord's classic 1967 text, remade into a contemporary context, with all sorts of visual remixing in the grand spirit of 'the spectacle.' Also includes Marshall McLuhan and John Berger.
18 min
Jon Stewart Slams CNN for Chaotic, 'Vomit-like' Coverage of Mass Shooting in Washington
Jon Stewart Slams CNN for Chaotic, 'Vomit-like' Coverage of Mass Shooting in Washington
John Stewart ripped CNN apart on Tuesday night's Daily Show for it's appalling coverage of the Washington Navy Yard Shooting - specifically for drawing speculative conclusions in the absence of concrete facts. Just mute the ad at the beginning. It is Comedy Central's video...
7 min
How Facebook May Secretly Foil Your Activist Plans
How Facebook May Secretly Foil Your Activist Plans
In recent years, Facebook has become an unexpectedly crucial tool for activism. The social media platform allows activists to efficiently connect and communicate with one another in order to arrange meetings, protests and boycotts. Unfortunately, activists who once found that...
Kevin Mathews
"Wrong, Blasphemous and Sinful" - 10 Years of 9/11 Media Coverage
"Wrong, Blasphemous and Sinful" - 10 Years of 9/11 Media Coverage (2011)
"Wrong, Blasphemous and Sinful" is the English version of the Belgian film "Epouvantails, autruches et perroquets." The film analyzes the way the media managed to skip or distort controversial subjects surrounding the 9/11 attacks. The original film in French appeared on the...
101 min
The Internet Must Go
The Internet Must Go (2013)
The Internet Must Go is a video mockumentary which follows the character John Wooley, a market researcher who tries to come up with a plan for how internet service providers can try to market what internet access would look like without network neutrality protections. The...
30 min
The Fighting F--k Toy and Other Disturbing Hollywood Archetypes that Shape Our Perception of Women
The Fighting F--k Toy and Other Disturbing Hollywood Archetypes that Shape Our Perception of Women
Want to have a pervasive effect on the subconscious attitudes of our culture? Get into the entertainment business.
10 min
Journalists Admit to Not Being Skeptical In Lead-Up to Iraq War
Journalists Admit to Not Being Skeptical In Lead-Up to Iraq War
In this clip from the film "War Made Easy", some of television's most prominent journalists admit that their organizations were not skeptical enough in their reporting during the lead up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
2 min
Obama Will Launch a Huge Propaganda Blitz -- and May Attack Syria Even If He Loses the Vote in Congress
Obama Will Launch a Huge Propaganda Blitz -- and May Attack Syria Even If He Loses the Vote in Congress
Grassroots pressure has forced President Obama to seek approval from Congress for an attack on Syria. But Obama is hell-bent on ordering a missile assault on that country, and he has two very important aces in the hole.
Norman Solomon
Legendary Newspaper Fights to Stay Alive and Stop Conservative News Monopoly in Las Vegas
Legendary Newspaper Fights to Stay Alive and Stop Conservative News Monopoly in Las Vegas
The story is, by now, familiar: A once-powerful newspaper is facing insolvency, and its owners, heirs to the empire-builder of yesteryear, are fighting among themselves, allowing petty concerns about money to split their family and tarnish their legacy. This time, the setting...
Steve Friess
Ten Documentaries Featuring Champions of Social Justice
Ten Documentaries Featuring Champions of Social Justice
Social activism has always been a popular subject for documentarians because it presents stories of both cause and characters. The 10 powerful films below are not a complete list of films about social activists, but certainly proof enough that social change is possible, even...
Bill Moyers & Company
CNN: Let Me Explain Why Miley Cyrus' VMA Performance Was Our Top Story This Morning
CNN: Let Me Explain Why Miley Cyrus' VMA Performance Was Our Top Story This Morning
Over the years, CNN.com has become a news website that many people turn to for top-notch reporting. Every day it is visited by millions of people, all of whom rely on “The Worldwide Leader in News”—that’s our slogan—for the most crucial, up-to-date information on current...
Meredith Artley, Managing Editor Of CNN.Com
'Game of Thrones' Exec says Piracy is 'Better than an Emmy.' He Has a Point.
'Game of Thrones' Exec says Piracy is 'Better than an Emmy.' He Has a Point.
The people behind “Game of Thrones,” reportedly the most-pirated show on the Internet, have always taken an oddly laissez-faire view of piracy. Director David Petrarca once told a crowd in Sydney that illegal downloads help the show by generating “buzz.” Both author George...
Caitlin Dewey
A New Kind of Real
A New Kind of Real
Things are getting real. Entertainment, specifically. And by "real" I don't mean serious, or imminent, or even necessarily honest -- but real, as in pushed to the limit of what we perceive as real, and even further, until it's so real we can't distinguish what's real and...
Gabriel Mizrahi
Abby Martin Blasts Rachel Maddow for 9/11 Comments
Abby Martin Blasts Rachel Maddow for 9/11 Comments
Abby Martin calls out MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, for promoting the notion that violence is rooted in conspiracy theories, while disregarding the importance of questioning official government narratives.
6 min
Is Television Making Us Stupid?
Is Television Making Us Stupid?
"I wasn't worried about freedom. I was worried about people being turned into morons by TV." -- Ray Bradbury in 2001 talking about his book Fahrenheit 451
Ron Kaufman
It's The Greatest Drama of All Time and You Just Might Be Missing It
It's The Greatest Drama of All Time and You Just Might Be Missing It
When you're glued to the latest series of a show like Game of Thrones, caught up in the drama, the twists and turns of the plot, you may be missing the most intricate, massive drama imaginable; the one happening all around you, in real time.
6 min
How to End A Dirty War: Rick Rowley on Truth-Telling
How to End A Dirty War: Rick Rowley on Truth-Telling
Secret wars breed deadly blow-back. It’s a truth as old as covert operations themselves but one that both Democratic and Republican administrations ignore, leading to a vicious cycle of spending on killing that soaks up billions of public dollars.
14 min
Why Sharing News About Solutions Is a Revolutionary Act
Why Sharing News About Solutions Is a Revolutionary Act
Scary stories of kidnappings and explosions lead our news feeds, but it's the good news that helps break down the myth of our own powerlessness. "If it bleeds, it leads." Ever hear that maxim of journalism? If you want readers, go with the scary, gruesome story—that's what...
Frances Moore Lappé
Four Ways to Escape the NSA Dragnet
Four Ways to Escape the NSA Dragnet
Start by switching to an alternative search engine, using an alias on Facebook, and supporting allied nonprofits. The PRISM scandal confirmed our worst fears when it comes to state-level surveillance of the Internet, with the revelation that the NSA has created "backdoors"...
Nick Pearson
15 Things Everyone Would Know If There Was Actually a Liberal Media
15 Things Everyone Would Know If There Was Actually a Liberal Media
Prince Riebus (and apparently many others) still th
David Akadjian
The More Nefarious US Foreign Policy, The More It Relies on Media Complicity
The More Nefarious US Foreign Policy, The More It Relies on Media Complicity
Americans are shielded from the ugly consequences of US military power by our journalists' self-censorship The US still has military spending that is higher in real, inflation-adjusted terms than it was during the peak of the Reagan cold war build-up, the Vietnam war and...
Mark Weisbrot
Hey Idiots: Taking On the "Right Wing Insanely Fake Christian Hate-Monkey Trolls" Over Al Jazeera
Hey Idiots: Taking On the "Right Wing Insanely Fake Christian Hate-Monkey Trolls" Over Al Jazeera
With Al Jazeera America launching in a couple of weeks, Current TV's John Fugelsang decides to address the
Abby Zimet
DÉRIVES
DÉRIVES (2013)
Produced independently without any financial aid, Dérives is the result of more than thirty hours of interviews with citizen witnesses and victims of police brutality.
73 min
Edward Snowden's Not the Story. The Fate of the Internet Is.
Edward Snowden's Not the Story. The Fate of the Internet Is.
The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network and that US firms' cloud services cannot be trusted Repeat after me: Edward Snowden is not the story. The story is what he has revealed about the hidden wiring...
John Naughton
Honor The Treaties
Honor The Treaties
A portrait of photographer Aaron Huey's work on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Featuring Shepard Fairey.
12 min
So What Happens When You Make a Fake North Korean Propaganda Film?
So What Happens When You Make a Fake North Korean Propaganda Film?
From consumerism to Columbus Day to celebrity culture, the film "Propaganda" (available to watch in whole online) slices open contemporary Western culture for its rewriting of history and its imperialist and corporatist policies.  The film was released in ten parts last year...
Bryce J. Renninger
Remembering Helen Thomas: Journalistic Trailblazer
Remembering Helen Thomas: Journalistic Trailblazer
Abby Martin gives a tribute to the late Helen Thomas, looking back at some of the highpoints of her career and her important role as a female journalist who was never shy to hold powerful people accountable. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby...
4 min
Rolling Stone Bomber Cover: Media Misses the Point | Weapons of Mass Distraction
Rolling Stone Bomber Cover: Media Misses the Point | Weapons of Mass Distraction
Abby Martin goes over the corporate media hypocrisy over a recent Rolling Stone magazine cover which features Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and calls out the corporate media for focusing more on the cover than the many unanswered questions that remain regarding...
6 min
MSNBC 'Dear Snowden' Distraction | Brainwash Update
MSNBC 'Dear Snowden' Distraction | Brainwash Update
Abby Martin calls out MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry for choosing to focus on Edward Snowden's international escapades rather than focusing on the more relevant issue of NSA spying. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...
4 min
Larry King: Greenwald Not a Journalist | Think Tank
Larry King: Greenwald Not a Journalist | Think Tank
Abby Martin talks to Larry King, host of RT's Politicking, about his views on what journalism should be, and how they are different from what 'Breaking the Set' presents. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
9 min
Western Propaganda through N. Korea's Eyes | Interview with Slavko Martinov
Western Propaganda through N. Korea's Eyes | Interview with Slavko Martinov
Abby Martin talks to filmmaker, Slavko Martinov, creator of the film 'Propaganda', a documentary made from the perspective of North Korea, which serves as a critique against the hyper capitalist structure, political manipulation, and consumerism that characterizes the western...
11 min
Bill Maher Democrat Lackey | Brainwash Update
Bill Maher Democrat Lackey | Brainwash Update
Abby Martin calls out Bill Maher, host of HBO's 'Real Time', for his evolution from being a controversial commentator to being an arrogant lackey for the democratic party, citing his rampant Islamophobia, support for drones, and defense of the NSA's wiretapping program.
5 min
Classic TV: Jon Stewart Calls Out Crossfire Pundits
Classic TV: Jon Stewart Calls Out Crossfire Pundits
In 2004, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart confronted the two hosts of CNN's Crossfire on their own show to criticize their brand of debate theater which Stewart claimed was promoting dishonest arguments.  Less than three months later CNN canceled the show with the head of the...
14 min
PressPausePlay
PressPausePlay (2011)
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a...
81 min
The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
Thom Hartmann
The Mother of All Rules Governing US Media: Censor & Cover-Up US Government Criminality
The Mother of All Rules Governing US Media: Censor & Cover-Up US Government Criminality
In January 2008 The Sunday Times published the second report of its four-part investigative series concerning the U.S. government’s direct role in international terrorism networks and organized crime involving nuclear espionage: For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets .
Sibel Edmonds
Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to an al-Qaeda chief spiked?
Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to an al-Qaeda chief spiked?
FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds was described as "the most gagged person in the history of the United States" by the American Civil Liberties Union. Was the Sunday Times pressured to drop its investigation into her revelations? A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary...
Nafeez Ahmed
Free The Press, Buy The Tribune Company
Free The Press, Buy The Tribune Company
Infamous right-wing billionaires Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers are threatening to buy the Tribune Company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. Enough - let's buy the Tribune Company ourselves, and free the press.
4 min
Ron Unz on Our American Pravda & Sibel Edmonds Case
Ron Unz on Our American Pravda & Sibel Edmonds Case
“These three stories—the anthrax evidence, the McCain/POW revelations, and the Sibel Edmonds charges—are the sort of major exposés that would surely be dominating the headlines of any country with a properly-functioning media. But almost no American has ever heard of them.”
Sibel Edmonds
How Cable News Terrorizes America
How Cable News Terrorizes America
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and while a massive police manhunt continued for the suspected perpetrator, 19 year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, NBC journalist David Gregory would say to American television viewers: "This is a new state of terror the country has to get...
Murtaza Hussain
What You Read is an Ethical Choice
What You Read is an Ethical Choice
Your information diet is an ethical choice of yours, so when you’re on the Huffington Post looking at say the Kardashians and you click on the Kardashians, understand that you are not only reading that article, but you’re also voting for that article.
Clay Johnson
ACLU: CISPA Is Dead (For Now)
ACLU: CISPA Is Dead (For Now)
CISPA is all but dead, again.
Jason Koebler
'Factory Farms' Aren't Farms: They Are Concentration Camps for Animals
'Factory Farms' Aren't Farms: They Are Concentration Camps for Animals
In most state legislatures today, "off the wall" has become the political center, and bizarre bills are no longer unusual.
Jim Hightower
Rocky Mountain Views Interviews Films For Action
Rocky Mountain Views Interviews Films For Action
We had a rare opportunity to meet with the co-founders of Films For Action, Tim Hjersted and Matthew Toplikar. Their amazing and free site is informative, educational, and on the cutting edge of a new type of news media. It's honest, innovative, and a leader in social...
28 min
War of words: The new Chechen terror
War of words: The new Chechen terror
For years the US and its intelligence services have championed the Chechen cause – legitimizing terrorism as righteous resistance. But after news that the two alleged Boston bombers were of Chechen origin, the story took on a new political dimension.
Eric Draitser
CISPA Goes to The Floor for a Vote, Privacy Amendments Blocked
CISPA Goes to The Floor for a Vote, Privacy Amendments Blocked
Yesterday, the US House prepared for the debate on the privacy-invading "cybersecurity" bill called CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The rules committee hearing was the last stop before the bill is voted on by the full House.
Kurt Opsahl and Rainey Reitman and Mark Jaycox
Evangeline Lilly Speaks Out on Media Reform: "Let's Make the Truth as Entertaining as the Lies"
Evangeline Lilly Speaks Out on Media Reform: "Let's Make the Truth as Entertaining as the Lies"
Lost actress Evangeline Lilly speaks out at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, April 2013. Her keynote tells the story of how she woke up and got involved in the media reform movement.
16 min
Amy Goodman: Corporate Media Isn't Mainstream; it's ‘an Extreme Media Beating the Drums for War’
Amy Goodman: Corporate Media Isn't Mainstream; it's ‘an Extreme Media Beating the Drums for War’
Journalist Amy Goodman made the case for independent media at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver on Saturday, saying the pro-war views of the corporate media networks were firmly entrenched.
20 min
Shadows of Liberty: The Truth Behind the News Media
Shadows of Liberty: The Truth Behind the News Media (2012)
Shadows of Liberty reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control.
50 min
Programming the Nation? The History of Subliminal Messaging and Propaganda in America
Programming the Nation? The History of Subliminal Messaging and Propaganda in America (2011)
PROGRAMMING THE NATION  takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late 1950s subliminal content has been tested and delivered through all forms of mass-media including Hollywood filmmakers Alfred...
100 min
From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See
From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See
Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...
Tim Hjersted
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (trailer)
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture.
5 min
An Open Letter To Mark Zuckerberg
An Open Letter To Mark Zuckerberg
Dear Mark, I hope this letter reaches you, and finds you well.
Sergio Toporek
From Consumerism to Climate Change: 41 Outstanding Documentaries You Have to See
From Consumerism to Climate Change: 41 Outstanding Documentaries You Have to See
Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...
Tim Hjersted
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
The documentary about the founders of the Pirate Bay. Share it with the world! Support the filmmakers of this free film here www.tpbafk.tv A film by Simon Klose
82 min
The Creed of Objectivity Killed The News
The Creed of Objectivity Killed The News
The creed of objectivity and balance, formulated at the beginning of the 19th century by newspaper owners to generate greater profits from advertisers, disarms and cripples the press. This abject moral failing has left the growing numbers of Americans shunted aside by our...
Chris Hedges
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