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Video: Orwell Rolls In His Grave
In Orwell Rolls In His Grave, Pappas raises the stakes several degrees and focuses on the very filters through which news, and the history constructed from accumulated reportage and research, are constructed. Asking whether George Orwell��s 1984 has come to pass in the United States (the answer is an emphatic yes), Pappas piles up the evidence, from media professionals, public intellectuals, published research, and the public record.

��We falsely think of our country as a democracy when it has evolved into a mediacracy,�� author and filmmaker Danny Schechter says on camera, ��where a media that is supposed to check political abuse is part of the political abuse.�� Taking a cue from Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in the Media), Pappas works his way through a compelling list of ��the best stories never reported�� in mainstream media. Dispensing with the polite lie of giving ��all�� sides ��fair�� airing of their views, Pappas draws together the collective wisdom of the Serious Left. The viewer is treated to some engaging kitchen table talk, where everyone has let his hair down. ��What you want in a media system,�� Miller is referring to Nazi leader Gobbels�� strategy on camera, ��is to present the ostensible diversity that conceals an actual conformity.��

Telling even in such minor details as this, Pappas demonstrates the lie of American media. Vignettes-C-U-M-case studies demonstrate how transnational corporate media has aligned itself with a radical right-wing White House (read: Bush dynasty) to recast reality to serve their own graven purposes. To take a simpler example, Bernie Sanders, independent congressman from Vermont, identifies Orwellian doublespeak of the Bush White house, when, for example, re-labeling the estate tax (which affects only the top 2% of Americans) as a ��death tax��—whereby, presto-chango, everyone with any common sense automatically falls into vehement opposition. Pappas�� primer includes how Reagan manipulated the release of the US hostages in Iran (the October Surprise stage of the Iran-Contra scandal), how Clear Channel parlayed family ties with the Texas Bushes to end broadcast localism in exchange for private wealth and influence, how family connections and influence over the Supreme Court empowered corporate media to hand the Florida recount to George W.

And the list goes on ... watch ->
http://www.lonelantern.org/downloads/Orwell%20Rolls%20in%20his%20Grave.wmv

[Harpeau]

Hey, looks pretty interesting. Yes, I guess Orwell would be rolling in his grave. All of the crap & additives that they've thrown into his popcorn would probably piss any guy off.

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