Coverage of Haiti makes me think again about this 1983 made for tv movie about MSM coverage of news. It was playing when I went to a friend's house, had to sit and watch for a while because it seemed so real. The special effects are not very good, but overall as a movie about MSM news, it is scathing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086350/"A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met."
BUT this is NOT about the topic at hand (collecting nuclear detonators) but about MSM news coverage. They ran "dramatization" at the bottom of the screen, but still people panicked. I'd recommend it to anyone who is at all cynical about tv msm news coverage.
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