Broadcast Blues

October 03, 2011 05:31

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A scathing look at the state of American broadcasting today.

In a no holds barred exposé, veteran journalist Sue Wilson explains how the predominantly conservative corporations controlling talk radio are influencing American public opinion and actually changing the way we vote. She details how false and vitriolic hate campaigns are broadcast as legitimate news reports and laments the lack of government controls which should ensure radio and television broadcasters are upholding their public interest obligations.

Through a series of vignettes, Wilson shows how media policy changes, stemming from the Reagan era, have corrupted American news, information, and even public safety. She gives as a prime example, the recent Fox News court ruling that news does not have to be true.

Wilson says it is up to the public to hold broadcasters as well as the government regulators accountable in order to “take the media back”.

Winner of the Sacramento International Film Festival

Directed and Produced by: Sue Wilson

Comments (6)

dc234 15.06.2011 01:24

These fools who talk about the constitution make me laugh. What a joke. Money rules everything in the United States. The money men and big corporations can have the laws twisted and spun any way they want. Even the supreme court is now a bought and paid for corporately owned entity.US citizens think their votes count. Elections are just a smoke screen obscurring the real agendas. The only thing decided by these elections is which party gets the power and big bucks associated with it. As far as we citizens are concerned we are just there to be used and robbed.Here's an example: Obamacare the healthcare law that's going to ruin the nation (according to the republicans, yet loved by democrats), strip away the minor rule changes and the framework is that every citizen must buy health insurance from private insurance companies.Compare this to Paul Ryan's budget plan (this innovative, brave plan which will save America (according to the republicans, but hated by the democrats). Strip away all the small time cuts like defunding NPR and planned parenthood and you are left with every senior citizen has to buy health insurance from private insurance companies.Any American who believes the government cares about the average citizens or the constitution is a fool.

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Mogambo55 07.06.2011 21:49

The USA Patriot Act has done more to take away Americans constitutional rights than any other act and this was passed under a Republican administration and voted in by both parties so Xavier Lerma criticisms that “The Democrats have tried to stop FREEDOM of Speech” is clearly false. Both parties have been at fault! Compared to American news coverage RT is a breath of fresh air. I am not suggesting that you should believe everything you hear but American News channels rights to lie to the American people is protected by the 1st Amendment. In 2003 an Appellate Court of Florida’s Second District ruled for Fox News that their right to distort the truth was protected by the Constitution as the FCC’s policy of news distortion does not have the weight of the law to support it. The 1st Amendment defends the right to freedom of speech, and it is not a violation of this right to tell a lie!

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Kaleigh 05.06.2011 04:05

That's really thinking out of the box. Thkans!

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