Spin Documentary shows how media lies to us about issues. watch!
video.google.com — Pat Robertson banters about "*****," Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry King about halcyon -- all presuming they're off camera. Composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality.
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- kelt65, on 01/23/2008, -2/+73This is a great documentary film that came out in 1995 ... this is a must see, period.
- themastersb, on 01/23/2008, -17/+2tl;dw
- scoutxxor, on 01/23/2008, -0/+10Plus, this was in 95'.
Imagine where 13 years of media evolution puts us today.. - midhqel, on 01/24/2008, -0/+9Really is a shame not many people are aware or willing to be aware that the media and the government has always controlled the populations mind. They have done so and always will until "we" wake up, just hope the majority of people stop being idiots by only forming their own opinion by hearing or reading an opinion of another.
I am hopeful the Internet and todays technology will allow people to wake up and stop believing the BS we have always been feed.- troye, on 01/24/2008, -0/+1Well said
- midhqel, on 01/24/2008, -0/+8It is also a shame that an article such as this get so few comments while a death even though tragic, of an actor gets thousands of comments.
It really is no wonder that as a collective group it is easy for us to be manipulated. Until we wake up we shall remain pathetic. - justthoughts, on 01/24/2008, -0/+1Well I have been loosing trust in the media for years now. Hold on---- my trust is finally gone. Wait a second--- my trust in the government is hanging by a thread. I guess I am 100% cynical now!
- SiNN4R, on 01/23/2008, -1/+60This movie shows you just how fake and manipulative politics really are.
- Albionshores, on 01/23/2008, -2/+44They're a bunch of crooks, both those in front of camera and those behind. I knew it would be bad but that's an epidemic!
- Worldviewsblog, on 01/23/2008, -1/+47After viewing this video, watching TV news will never be the same for me. It's incredible how crude and blatant they are about manufacturing and distorting news. Who needs government censors when the media willingly censors the news themselves.
- rarson, on 01/23/2008, -2/+12The media might as well be the government. When everyone involved is scratching each other's backs, they're basically operating as a single entity.
- ernliz, on 01/23/2008, -7/+0A really DUMB comment! Currently, the media is heavily biased against this administration and they admit it! Definitely NOT a single entity.
- sigg14, on 01/24/2008, -0/+6this "bias" you speak off is all smoke and mirrors. all the mudslinging betwen political parties, news stations, politicians,etc. is just a show to keep the people distracted from what is really going on.
pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
- sigg14, on 01/24/2008, -0/+6this "bias" you speak off is all smoke and mirrors. all the mudslinging betwen political parties, news stations, politicians,etc. is just a show to keep the people distracted from what is really going on.
- ernliz, on 01/23/2008, -7/+0A really DUMB comment! Currently, the media is heavily biased against this administration and they admit it! Definitely NOT a single entity.
- rarson, on 01/23/2008, -2/+12The media might as well be the government. When everyone involved is scratching each other's backs, they're basically operating as a single entity.
- diggerman, on 01/23/2008, -26/+1This documentary seems to play more on peoples emotions. Most people already realize that politicians will do anything to win, and that there are a few bad apples in the media. This documentary fails to provide hard evidence that the majority of the media is involved in some sort of conspiracy. However, this documentary was somewhat entertaining.
- notque, on 01/23/2008, -2/+27I do not think there is a conspiracy. I think that the news media is acting exactly as you would expect they would within our system.
If you're the C.E.O. of G.E., your fiduciary duty is to your shareholders. You are beholden to only the people that profit off of your success.
You must take every action to increase your share price. You have immense power by performing this job.
When you work in a company, you are renting your time to them, and they basically control you. Each job has a different amount of control, but you submit to control. Often times people do things they morally have issues with.
They often learn to accept these moral issues by justifying the success they have, and then making excuses for what they've done sufficiently to the point where they think they are even helping.
But they follow corporate orders. Example.
I work for a company. I follow their rules. They give to politicians that I morally find reprehensible, but I continue to work there. That's what corporations do.
They put people in power that will increase their bottom line. If a corporation owns a media service, they dictate the stories. They veto what they don't like. They give directives.
This is how the media operates. That isn't a conspiracy, that's their fiduciary duty. They are required by law to do whatever it "legally" takes to increase their profit. They get paid huge sums of money for this task.
I know some of these people. I know two guys who created a business. They are amazing people, and have great moral compasses.
But they hired to run their company a C.E.O. that would make them rich.
It isn't a conspiracy. They don't sit in rooms and plot a single story. But everything they do, at all times it based on their profit. And if you want something that goes against their profit, or their shareholders you are going to have the weight of a very powerful corporation on your ass, and they have ways of making you submit.
They decide the candidates. They ask the questions. They are well vetted to make sure they will do their job.
and if they are any good, they will think they are unbiased. Because the best spokesmen are the ones that believe the propaganda. The ones that don't have a nasty habit of being truthful once in a while, and that's never good.
No conspiracy. Just normal capitalism performing it's normal function in an environment with joint stock entities. Adam Smith warned about them. He thought that when you start collecting enough money as power you become to dangerous.- juniorb, on 01/23/2008, -0/+4Well said. Conspiracies are easy to stop. The natural course of human behavior, however, is not.
- smartass007, on 01/24/2008, -0/+4as succinct an argument against corporate capitalism if i ever read one...well done...even if you didn't intend it that way.
- jaymzdean, on 01/23/2008, -2/+9This documentary plays on people's emotions?
What the hell are you talking about?
The mainstream media and their sponsors. THEY are the ones playing with your emotions. Get the latest drug for constipation and run through green fields and daisies, drink Budweiser and get lots of hot chicks, get AT&T wireless and have a special moment with your 7 year old daughter, and, oh yea, be afraid...very afraid.- diggerman, on 01/23/2008, -7/+2For example, the documentary shows numerous clips of Larry King acting out of character, which is a shock to anyone watching this film, but what real point does this prove? Are we suppose to believe that all TV personalities are phonies just because this documentary shows almost 10 minutes of Larry King being a phony? This is what I mean by "playing on people's emotions." It just doesn't provide enough hard evidence that the majority of the media is acting this way.
- rarson, on 01/23/2008, -1/+4Journalists aren't supposed to be actors playing "characters." They're supposed to be unbiased people presenting the news. Larry King isn't a phony when he's "out of character"... that's his real nature. The fact is that his whole on-air persona is complete *****. And nobody knows because they never see it.
The media is playing us for idiots, putting on a happy face and feeding us "news" that is hand-picked to tell us only what they want us to know. The deception is widespread. What is shown here is examples of it.
- rarson, on 01/23/2008, -1/+4Journalists aren't supposed to be actors playing "characters." They're supposed to be unbiased people presenting the news. Larry King isn't a phony when he's "out of character"... that's his real nature. The fact is that his whole on-air persona is complete *****. And nobody knows because they never see it.
- diggerman, on 01/23/2008, -7/+2For example, the documentary shows numerous clips of Larry King acting out of character, which is a shock to anyone watching this film, but what real point does this prove? Are we suppose to believe that all TV personalities are phonies just because this documentary shows almost 10 minutes of Larry King being a phony? This is what I mean by "playing on people's emotions." It just doesn't provide enough hard evidence that the majority of the media is acting this way.
- kaelyiesta, on 01/23/2008, -1/+1You mean a few good apples in media.
- notque, on 01/23/2008, -2/+27I do not think there is a conspiracy. I think that the news media is acting exactly as you would expect they would within our system.
- saxmaster, on 01/23/2008, -2/+20Wow, I'm dizzy.
- smacksaw, on 01/23/2008, -19/+1I watched part of it...couldn't really finish it, though. Not so much because of length, but the poor production. No soundproofing in the room where the narration was recorded coupled with the lack of subtle stock music in the background really took away from an otherwise well-edited and well-researched piece.
If someone makes a 2008 update to this, I'd hope they have more professional production methods.- Groovemaster, on 01/23/2008, -1/+17I'm more likely to watch a documentary with poor production values, for the simple reason that it was created by people with more passion and altruism than money.
- sparf, on 01/23/2008, -1/+9I can't help but wonder what beauty, and truth, you may have missed in other media, simply because you didn't like the delivery.
Grow some patience and perspective.
- FadieZ, on 01/23/2008, -1/+9The media lies to us? You don't say...
- caponumen, on 01/23/2008, -11/+17Not just lies, they have an obvious agenda.
This is why the man made global warming propaganda that came out during the Clinton administration is still going strong today.
They even pushed to make it a part of weather reporting.
And it is not just the so called news media, it extends to most all media such a National Geographic and others.
Child abduction fear mongering and profiteering has been going o for 20 years.
Defamation of the 2nd amendment and firearm ownership has been on going for 40 years now.
The list goes on and on............- banzai26, on 01/23/2008, -2/+7Global warming propaganda - you got to be ***** kidding me.... You don't even need to be able to read - you can see the ***** glaciers melting into the ocean.......
- Akufen, on 01/24/2008, -0/+4It's not a matter of it occuring or not, but rather what causes it.
If you watch a bit closer, you'll realize that the people telling us we should do something about this problem, really couldn't care less. Just like Bush doesn't care about peace in the middle east or democracy in Iraq. It's just an act. - sigg14, on 01/24/2008, -0/+1global warming is a natural event, the propaganda is the govt./media trying to use this to steer the people in the direction they want. I'm all for being environmentally aware, but do not buy into these scare tactics. 30-40 years ago the media had "experts" on climatology on the news telling us we are facing a potential ice age in our lifetime. the earth naturally regulates it's temperature and goes through cooling and warming trends, we just happen to be in a warming trend.
- Akufen, on 01/24/2008, -0/+4It's not a matter of it occuring or not, but rather what causes it.
- banzai26, on 01/23/2008, -2/+7Global warming propaganda - you got to be ***** kidding me.... You don't even need to be able to read - you can see the ***** glaciers melting into the ocean.......
- Frostman3D, on 01/23/2008, -1/+18Everybody should watch this. It's way more advanced now though, but this gives you a good idea about how the politicians control the media.
- thcobbs, on 01/23/2008, -0/+2Man, those wild feeds are the ONLY way to watch news.... Its how I watched the first gulf war.
- superawesome, on 01/23/2008, -1/+1Why do you think that is? See those trails in the sky that some claim are "water vapor"? Chemtrails dude. Your government is conditioning you. Why do you think they keep blacking out a certain candidate who would finally clean up (pun indented) our FAA by making it a state issue? I'd post a link, but digg is becoming more media controlled and they filter information like mine.
- themacx, on 01/23/2008, -1/+16it's like the CNN "debate" that was scripted by CNN... it's all show.
- norman619, on 01/23/2008, -1/+2I loved how Thompson refused to be restricted to a sound bite when asked a question on a complicated topic.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-394234281 ...
Classic attempt at manipulation.
- norman619, on 01/23/2008, -1/+2I loved how Thompson refused to be restricted to a sound bite when asked a question on a complicated topic.
- FromTheTop, on 01/23/2008, -4/+5Here's some interesting "Straight BS Talk" from steriod John. See VIDEOS below.
McCain is a believer in the Kyoto agreement and is a global Warming wimp! The light bulbs are just the beginning. Now it is OUR thermostat!
Professional, political parisites listen to LOBBYISTS who eventually get them into trouble! Have you forgotten the Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal? Here are some of the things McCain has accomplished witn 25 years in Washington, D.C... Keating, the comptroller, of Lincoln S&L was convicted of over 70 criminal violations in Arizona, McCain's home state. Senator John McCain was one of the ringleaders of the "KEATING FIVE" that cost the American taxpayers $160 BILLION DOLLARS. McCain/Feingold(D) Bill (Free Speech assault), McCain/Kennedy(D) Amnesty Bill (for 12M illegal aliens) and McCain/Gang of 14 (Democrats/Filibusters), McCain/Lieberman(I/D) (Global Warming Tax), Voted NO to MLK Jr. Holiday and voted NO on tax cuts. What will he do as POTUS? Be afraid! Be very afraid!
http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=954&tit ... _
http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=956&tit ...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI&feature=rel ... - sobe86, on 01/23/2008, -0/+18Interesting bit about how the media basically censored one of the democratic candidates, Larry Agran. Most Digg users will be pretty familiar with this sort of thing....
- phnx0221, on 01/23/2008, -0/+11I thought about Kucinich when I saw that. I thought that the Kucinich thing was something new. I'm not sure if I feel better or worse knowing that it wasn't. I do know that I feel particularly disgusted and disillusioned right now, even with the media propaganda knowledge I had before.
- cybrguy, on 01/23/2008, -0/+5Kucinich, Paul, Gravel, all of them saw this. Paul is just presently the most popular example; and probably the most obvious case.
- phnx0221, on 01/23/2008, -0/+11I thought about Kucinich when I saw that. I thought that the Kucinich thing was something new. I'm not sure if I feel better or worse knowing that it wasn't. I do know that I feel particularly disgusted and disillusioned right now, even with the media propaganda knowledge I had before.
- diggerman, on 01/23/2008, -3/+1Never knew Bill Clinton looks and acts like Elvis when he is off camera.
- phnx0221, on 01/23/2008, -0/+26It's an incredibly frustrating feeling, after watching this, realizing just how cemented our politicians, CEO's, and media organizations are to each other. I wish I had a satellite feed, so that I could be ahead of the game and try to filter out the lies before they are put out there into the mainstream. But there is just so much...so much to work against, so many lies we are being told, and it's all deliberately, to subdue us, to pacify us, and to keep us all ignorant of what is truly going on.
Like the discussion about MLK hospital in LA. The guy was talking about how LA is like a third world country, only without the hope, as at least third world countries have the hope of progress, that they're always growing. While a city in the United States is kept in despair, with almost no chance of growing out of it because the economy, culture, and livelihoods of people there are continuously being stifled. The news anchor says that this is too "obtuse", and then turns it around to say that the trauma is so bad that the military doctors are trained there so they know how to deal with war like conditions with large amounts of people being admitted.
The end result, is that instead of talking about the real issues, the cause of a stagnant society, and the keeping down of these people, because they apparently don't matter, we get coverage about death rates which immediately correlates to crime in the minds of the viewers, then furthering the idea that it's their fault. I would have much rather watched the discussion that they were having off camera.
Sigh...this makes the work that we do here, that much more important, as well as that much more difficult, because of the realization of what we're up against.- tgc1, on 01/24/2008, -0/+3That's why the internet is so great. We collectively wield the power to change the world. And it must scare the ***** out of those types, playing with their million dollar satellites, to know that someone on the internet could poke a hornets nest and have us all swarm around and cause a ***** storm in an instant. Fascinating.
TV's days of controlling are nearly over. It's the Internet where the power resides. Look at Ron Paul, look at his campaign, and how much of the donations he's received have come from the Internet groups vouching for his work. Imagine if there was no internet. Ron Paul wouldn't have even made it on TV.
- tgc1, on 01/24/2008, -0/+3That's why the internet is so great. We collectively wield the power to change the world. And it must scare the ***** out of those types, playing with their million dollar satellites, to know that someone on the internet could poke a hornets nest and have us all swarm around and cause a ***** storm in an instant. Fascinating.
- Kadail, on 01/23/2008, -1/+9Seeing as CNN's ratings rose 40% as direct result to having the presidents on Larry King's live tv show proves quite a lot. Did you watch the segment where Larry King tells Bill Clinton that he should talk to Ted Turner, that Ted Turner would participate in their news propaganda? Larry King is/was seen as a herald of the news media, the reason the documentary probably spent 10 minutes on Larry King. Your argument is a failure, diggerman.
- phnx0221, on 01/23/2008, -1/+3No! I accidentally buried you! I meant to digg you! Sorry about that.
- cxrfreeman, on 01/23/2008, -0/+14Can you say Kucinich?
- rarson, on 01/23/2008, -0/+10I found this documentary a while back, and watched it. It's extremely good, and I'm going to watch it again. But what interested me quite a bit was the whole satellite feed stuff that I never knew about.
Fast forward several months and I just got my latest issue of 2600 last week. In it, there's an article that talks about satellite equipment and how to pick up a variety of satellite feeds, some much like the ones featured in this documentary, without commercials or cuts. I didn't know that was still possible.
I'm highly interested in this type of thing. The author of the 2600 article mentions that the equipment isn't really that expensive, probably about $300 for a whole setup, so I might just have to look into getting my own setup. - Lucas123, on 01/23/2008, -8/+1Yeah. Shoot that messenger. On second thought, why would you lump tabloid hacks in with legit journalists who attend college, cut their teeth working miserable hours at crummy jobs for poverty pay for years before maybe, possibly getting the opportunity to work at a venerable publication like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post.
- juniorb, on 01/23/2008, -0/+2Because once they get there, they're willing to do anything—ANYTHING—to stay there.
- eclectro, on 01/23/2008, -10/+2Because Digg is the fountain of truth we all need to be paying attention to, and countering views are never buried or censored here.
- phnx0221, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3It's different when digg is involving people, the people's consent of information, the ability to discuss and have objective and differing viewpoints. Mainstream media is taken as truth, as source, as objective and unbiased, when it clearly is not. Most of the US population gets their news, and their election coverage from the mainstream media, and you can clearly see the effect that it is having on the awareness and nature of "informed" opinions that people have when they get their information from slanted sources.
- Quilik, on 01/23/2008, -1/+2having trouble finding a high quality version …from the usual places...
- j.carcinogen, on 01/23/2008, -0/+6Also Larry King tells Bill Clinton that Ted Turner would serve him.
- fluxion, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2actually took me a while to come to the conclusion that he probably wasnt talking about a BJ
- Makaveli, on 01/24/2008, -0/+1yeah .that statement caused some confusion for me too
- fluxion, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2actually took me a while to come to the conclusion that he probably wasnt talking about a BJ
- Sapulator, on 01/23/2008, -12/+6911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
- sdubois92, on 01/23/2008, -5/+2No it wasn't. douchebag.
- norman619, on 01/23/2008, -2/+3So was your inbreeding.
- ghamal, on 01/24/2008, -1/+2It was.But people are too scared and confused to accept the truth :( / ready for being dugg down...
- SickBoy, on 01/23/2008, -2/+2Wait: someone out there actually took the media at face value? Grow up.
- muckemuck, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2Yes.. the vast majority of the people in the US take the media at face value and unfortunately they are grown up and can (and do) vote.
All the media has to do is say "McCain", "front runner", and "comeback"a few thousand times and heyopresto he starts winning. Despite the exit polls showing voters are against the war in Iraq they voted for a man who wants it to last "100 years". Despite years of him flip flopping on his own issues the media presents him as "the straight talker".. and people buy it.
- muckemuck, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2Yes.. the vast majority of the people in the US take the media at face value and unfortunately they are grown up and can (and do) vote.
- Neiby, on 01/23/2008, -0/+10We need to come up with a self-funded "open source" news agency. The management of such agency needs to be completely transparent and its employees should swear to report the news without bias to the best of their ability.
- juniorb, on 01/23/2008, -0/+6We have it. It's called the Public Broadcasting System. In between telethons, they sometimes show something of intellectual worth.
- tgc1, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2Do it on the Internet. Much better chance of survival. In the Media game, all the seats are already taken. On the Internet, we're just getting warmed up.
- matthewf01, on 01/24/2008, -0/+3Until Comcast or Time Warner come and ***** in everyone's Huggies
- ghamal, on 01/24/2008, -0/+3The Real News (http://therealnews.com/web/index.php)
And digg!
- fearziz, on 01/23/2008, -8/+2Well I'm gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There's a hero inside of all of us
I'll make them see everyone has AIDS
My father (AIDS!)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog 'ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C'mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these baricades, - fearziz, on 01/23/2008, -6/+0Well I'm gonna march on Washington Lead the fight and charge the brigades There's a hero inside of all of us I'll make them see everyone has AIDS My father (AIDS!) My sister (AIDS!) My uncle and my cousin and her best friend The gays and the straights And the white and the spades Everyone has AIDS! My grandma and my dog 'ol blue The pope has got it and so do you C'mon everybody we got quilting to do We gotta break down these baricades, AIDS!
- saminator, on 01/23/2008, -6/+2Yeah the media sure does lie. Lies about so many things that liberals just eat up. Things like Israel. O no! The mean evil Jewish state is bullying dozens of arab states hundreds of times larger than it. Wake up people! You are still following the media's *****!
- Waterrat, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2No,the liberals don't just eat it up.
It's past time we stopped letting the powers that be divide us with terms like liberal and conservative.
If we don't start working together to fight this,we are goners. . - Waterrat, on 01/24/2008, -0/+1 No,the liberals don't just "eat it up"...
We are just as smart as you are and we can see the same BS you can.
That being said,as long as we divide ourselves with the liberal/conserative mantras,we have lost.
We must work together.
- Waterrat, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2No,the liberals don't just eat it up.
- theyac3, on 01/23/2008, -5/+1[Will Ferrell voice] That's shocking
- mrgulabull, on 01/23/2008, -0/+5This isn't news to anyone that's on the internet, but it's interesting evidence that backs up what we've all known. Perhaps Americans have become ignorant to the news, not because of an apathy of the external world, but because of a lack of trust in the news itself.
- volvinator, on 01/23/2008, -0/+7Thanks for posting this. I would have just gone "pfft docu from early 90's. No thanks" had I run across it. This is definitely worth sharing.
- dwcharn, on 01/23/2008, -0/+4Great documentary. And what is interesting is that this isn't a new thing. Starting with the first actual presidential debates (With John Adams being elected) and even prior (and as far back as history goes) those owning the news channels made the news in the image they saw fit. And those with power used it. Even with Digg I sometimes wonder how the lean towards a certain subject relates to the fact that many a Digg user tends to have like minds on many subjects.
Nice to know the Internet lets us find information so quickly and easily that we can have these conversations... The truth is finally much more available BEFORE someone takes office rather than after.
Oh hey look its 5:00! I get to stop digging at work so I can get home and digg! - Richandler, on 01/23/2008, -0/+2We need like a whole team of satellite feed leechers out there getting this footage if they still can today.
- theskyman, on 01/23/2008, -0/+6Pat Robertson is a complete lying ass hat!
- fluxion, on 01/24/2008, -0/+1"that guy was *****!"
- Waterrat, on 01/24/2008, -0/+1Don't insult gays by comparing them to that puke-bag.
- fluxion, on 01/24/2008, -0/+1i was actually referring to the video. someone calls in about pro-choice i think, and shortly after pat robertson was like "that gay was a *****!". basically, anyone who asks a question that puts him in a tight spot is automatically a homosexual with an evil agenda to him.
- Waterrat, on 01/24/2008, -0/+1Don't insult gays by comparing them to that puke-bag.
- fluxion, on 01/24/2008, -0/+1"that guy was *****!"
- jellygraph, on 01/23/2008, -0/+2The cake is a lie
*depressed now* - Cooperjones, on 01/23/2008, -3/+1Apparently right on Robertson, "bangor", but wrong on Christianity. Christianity isn't about love, acceptance and tolerance. it is about knowing you sin without being able to stop it and calling on the power of the Cross to help you overcome your own sinful tendencies. Only a loving God would want to help us overcome our own evil impulses. We are not to tolerate "sin" be it hypocrisy, lying, theft or sexual perversion as Christians. The word "tolerate" means "passive agreement" and Jesus never tolerated sin.
- cybrguy, on 01/23/2008, -0/+7I don't think this will get any better until we are the old folk. The young people today are starting to see through the facade. But the older people are trapped.
- warrenterr, on 01/23/2008, -1/+2Larry proved on this video that there is a jewish lobby.
- pitlord, on 01/24/2008, -0/+3Yeah, and Christian, Islamic, Bhuddist, Hindu, Scientologist… There are lobbies for every group in the country religious or not, what's your point?
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- pitlord, on 01/24/2008, -0/+3Yeah, and Christian, Islamic, Bhuddist, Hindu, Scientologist… There are lobbies for every group in the country religious or not, what's your point?
- kinship, on 01/23/2008, -0/+5The way they treat Agrin the democratic candidiate *sorry dont know how to spell his name* is alot like the way the media treats ron paul
- ValVedRaY, on 01/23/2008, -0/+5Watching this makes me sick!!! I've known about it, but just watching this makes my blood boil.
media scum they call it fair and balanced, yet sadly the mass will remain unaware of this epic problem - bdgbill, on 01/23/2008, -0/+3Everyone needs to realize that all media (big and small) portrays the ideas of the few people who produce it. That is the pure fact of news produced and broadcast anywhere... whether it is being controlled by the government, a private individual, by large companies funded by major advertising revenue, or written by private bloggers. All these different outlets come with their own pros & cons. We as the audience need to be informed and know what we are listening to/watching/reading and who is publishing it. The best way to get to the truth is to never rely on one singular outlet, but rather compare and contrast everything one hears, to everything else. We have an amazing system of free press in this country... but often times people do not use it effectively and get suckered into blindly listening to only one or two sources of news. Nothing is ever completely objective... nothing is ever completely accurate.
- Vektuz, on 01/24/2008, -2/+1A google video that you cannot skip though? lol.
- cipher64, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2It amazes me how media brainwashes the masses. It is hard to figure out who is the media actually working for. IMO a media is not just one person, so I guess media is a slave that serves a lot of masters except the public. Which is sad because public is one entity media should actually be serving. And with all the research that has been done on human psychology and all it is scary to think what options the media has to manipulate people. So next time you hear a story that favors one party over the other just take a minute to think what might be the story if the other party had a chance to tell it.
- JMScheib, on 01/24/2008, -0/+3This film really is very good. I'm am honestly impressed.
The man that put this together put a lot of work into this. - ShaneMcDeath, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2a few years ago this wouldn't have even been dugg up
im just glad the tide is slowly turning - funkywood, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2***** You Frank, and Peggy and the rest...
- TemtNosce, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2Wow, media excluding valid candidates. SOUNDS FAMILIAR! When is this going to change??
- GOVStooge, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2There is a reason this works so well, people simply refuse to analyze the information they are provided. People stick to their guns with the garbage being spewed by their favorite news network. This goes for all those Fox News bashers as well as all those that remember CNN as the "Clinton News Network".
People need to absorb their information from as many sources as they possibly can and use the outstanding reasoning device they were issued at birth. Sure Fox spins the message, well guess what, so does EVERY other news source on the planet. Use your brain, otherwise you are just spewing the rhetoric you were fed. - N987SA, on 01/24/2008, -0/+1If Google ever fixes their timestamp feature, the bit queued up at 27:03 is worth seeing.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-734418195 ...
"OK, I'm standing by ladies and gentlemen. We don't have ***** to say. We don't have anything to do. But by God, the management of this company deems it necessary that I come on the air at 7 in the morning and shock the ***** out of all of you." - DustyStarbucks, on 01/24/2008, -0/+2This is impressive. Makes me wonder if Global Warming might be a scare tactic to infuse money into environmental groups......NAH! What am I saying, global warming has nothing to do with natural fuctuation, it's your fault!
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