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Spin
Published on 14/03/07
by willpate
The fascinating world of unedited satellite feeds and spin doctoring in a handy one hour documentary.
Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters…Composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality.
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Wrenkin
14/03/07
It’s a pretty good movie, but he seems strangely fixated on the whole ‘Larry King on drugs” thing.
Rohan Jayasekera
18/03/07
I wasn’t planning to watch the whole hour, but I couldn’t stop.
I wonder why occasionally the soundtrack has a blip that sounds like an Australian saying “good day”. Low-tech watermarking?
I found the part about Larry Agran, who was ignored by the media even though he was a serious candidate for the Democratic nomination, very chilling. So that’s what happens if you call for a 50% reduction in U.S. military spending: the media know it won’t go over well with their audience, so they won’t cover it. Only citizen journalism, mostly on the Internet, will fill this hole. (I commented recently on this in this post on my second blog.)
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