Orwell Rolls In His Grave
These commercial entities now vie with the government for control over our lives. They are not a healthy counterweight to government. 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. 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 like to 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 the cast of characters in ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE are Charles Lewis, director of the Center for Public Integrity, Vincent Bugliosi, former L.A. prosecutor and legal scholar, film director and author Michael Moore, Rep. Bernie Sanders, Danny Schecter, author and former producer for ABC and CNN, and Tony Benn, former member of the British Parliament.
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. Are Americans being given the information a democracy needs to survive or have they been electronically lobotomized? Has the frenzy for media consolidation led to a dangerous irony where in an era of more news sources the majority of the population has actually become less informed? ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE reminds us that 1984 is no longer a date in the future.
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This movie was cool until the fat ******* Michael Moore appeared!!!!!!!!
i hate to tell you this assmunch, but this movie is not about aesthetic ‘coolness’
Interesting doc.
I can see parallels to Germany, but also many things that are better.
Here, here Roland
We have to do something to protect the internet at all costs. This is where myself along with many others get the vast majority of news and relevant info. It is the only honest medium left, and that honesty and integrity is beginning to be threatened by the media moguls and political interests that stand to gain form our continued ignorance. We have to draw the line here and say, “No, this is ours and you will not take it.” I would love to become more involved in this fight but, I have no idea how. Can anyone direct me to a organization or group I could participate in?
@ez2b12 …. there is a solution.
its called ‘wireless mesh networks’
this is a technology still in its infancy but there are groups (of boffins mostly) who are starting to put together some of these networks in local areas. the next step is to organise some long distance links between these networks and that way you basically have an ‘inter’-net that the government can’t touch without being exceedingly brutal.
there is no reason why websites can’t be hosted on such a network.
the downside (a subjective viewpoint) is that the users of such a network may have to be a little more net-literate rather than just throwing money at the big corps to do it all for them.
the reason you don’t hear much about wireless mesh networking is because there’s no money/profit in it for the telco’s. in fact if such a wireless mesh internet were to become global then that would spell the death of ALL TELCOS!!!! think about it.
cheers
Too intelligent. It sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. Will be vaporized.
And this dropped today: Article in the New Yorker about how billionaire oil tycoons financing the “grassroots” tea party movement and using them and the media to support their corporate interests: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer