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- inactive, on 01/23/2008, -2/+73This is a great documentary film that came out in 1995 ... this is a must see, period.
- SiNN4R, on 01/23/2008, -1/+60This movie shows you just how fake and manipulative politics really are.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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. - 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. - 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....
- saxmaster, on 01/23/2008, -2/+20Wow, I'm dizzy.
- 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.
- 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.
- themacx, on 01/23/2008, -1/+16it's like the CNN "debate" that was scripted by CNN... it's all show.
- cxrfreeman, on 01/23/2008, -0/+14Can you say Kucinich?
- 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.
- scoutxxor, on 01/23/2008, -0/+10Plus, this was in 95'.
Imagine where 13 years of media evolution puts us today.. - 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.
- 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.
- 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. - 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. - 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.
- 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. - 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. - FadieZ, on 01/23/2008, -1/+9The media lies to us? You don't say...
- 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.
- 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. - 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.
- theskyman, on 01/23/2008, -0/+6Pat Robertson is a complete lying ass hat!
- inactive, 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............ - 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.
- j.carcinogen, on 01/23/2008, -0/+6Also Larry King tells Bill Clinton that Ted Turner would serve him.
- 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 - 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.......
- 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.
- 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 - 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.
- 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
- 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. - inactive, 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.
- juniorb, on 01/23/2008, -0/+4Well said. Conspiracies are easy to stop. The natural course of human behavior, however, is not.
- banmaster, on 01/23/2008, -0/+4And of course, bending over to take it cold and deep from government spin doctors.
- 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! - ghamal, on 01/24/2008, -0/+3The Real News (http://therealnews.com/web/index.php)
And digg! - 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.
- matthewf01, on 01/24/2008, -0/+3Until Comcast or Time Warner come and ***** in everyone's Huggies
- 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. - 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. - 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?
>.> - 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.
- 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. - juniorb, on 01/23/2008, -0/+2Because once they get there, they're willing to do anything—ANYTHING—to stay there.
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