Orwell Rolls in his Grave (Full 3HR Documentary)

[Charleston Chew]

Run time: 181:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_lYGyIaK80   Posted on YouTube: December 26, 2010 By YouTube Member: WarCrime911 Views on YouTube: 2864   Posted on DU: March 04, 2011 By DU Member: Charleston Chew Views on DU: 1190

 
Director Robert Kane Pappas’ ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE 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 outright lies can pass for the truth, Pappas explores what the media doesn’t talk about: itself.

Meticulously tracing the process by which media has distorted and often dismissed actual news events, Pappas presents a riveting and eloquent mix of media professionals and leading intellectual voices on the media.
Among Pappas’ subjects in ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE are Charles Lewis, director of the Center for Public Integrity, Robert McChesney, media historian and author, Vincent Bugliosi, former L.A. prosecutor and legal scholar, film director Michael Moore, Rep. Bernie Sanders, Danny Schechter, former producer for ABC and CNN, and Tony Benn, formerly of the British Parliament.

ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE provides a vital forum for ideas that will never be heard in mainstream media. From Globalvision’s Danny Schechter: “We falsely think of our country as a democracy when it has evolved into a mediacracy – where a media that is supposed to check political abuse is part of the political abuse.” NYU media professor Mark Crispin Miller says, “Goebbels said that what you want in a media system – he meant the Nazi media system - is to present the ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity.”

From the very size of the media monopolies and how they got that way to who decides what gets on the air and what doesn’t, ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE moves through a troubling list of questions and news stories that go unanswered and unreported in the mainstream media.

ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE reminds us that 1984 is not just a date in the future.



http://www.orwellrollsinhisgrave.com/index.htm

[Fridays Child]

1. Marking for later.

[RufusTFirefly]

2. Saw this at the theater. Highly recommended

Some chilling stuff, including, if I remember correctly, a prediction that the Internet would eventually be taken over in the interest of "security."

Free speech scares the Hell out of the people who control this country.

[Charleston Chew]

3. Viewership Of Al Jazeera Is Going Up In The United States Because It's Real News

Hillary Clinton: "Viewership Of Al Jazeera Is Going Up In The United States Because It's Real News"

"Al Jazeera has been the leader in literally changing people's minds and attitudes. And like it or hate it, it is really effective.

In fact viewership of al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it's real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x559226

[Charleston Chew]

4. RT's take on Hillary Clinton asking for more money to boost US POV in global media war.

The U.S. is losing an information war to alternative media outlets, including RT. That's the message from Hillary Clinton to Congress members, who are questioning the State Department's US $47 billion budget request for next year. And as RT's Gayane Chichakyan reports, the U.S. Secretary of State says Washington needs to step up its propaganda efforts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x559396

[Charleston Chew]

5. US to fight real reporting with pure propaganda

America is losing the war of words, to new players - RT being one of them. U.S. top diplomat Hillary Clinton has lamented that foreign English-language media is putting home-grown news networks to shame. She's asked Congress for more cash to promote America's agenda abroad. But media professor Christopher Chambers doubts the money will produce balanced reporting.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x559660

[Charleston Chew]

6. OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism

"Outfoxed" examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.

The film explores Murdoch's burgeoning kingdom and the impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x522623

[Charleston Chew]

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[drokhole]

8. Sounds great, will watch later! Thanks!!! nt

[Charleston Chew]

9. The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News

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."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x100119

[HolyCity2012]

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