Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
Outfoxed takes a look at Ruper Murdoch’s FOX news, which has re-shaped the media landscape in the United States. The documentaries provides an in-depth look at Fox News, how it works, who funds it and the people it was created to benefit. Media is the nervous system of a democracy, but the free world is [...]
Porndemic: The Business of Internet Pornography
Porndemic puts faces and personalities to the extraordinary profitable business of pornography today. Porn has quietly reinvented itself on the world-wide-web, becoming more mainstream and culturally embedded every day. After starting with a visit to the old guard, the besieged Larry Flynt in his penthouse perch, Porndemic drops in on a Gen-X new-porn mogul on [...]
The Merchants Of Cool
They spend their days sifting through reams of market research data. They conduct endless surveys and focus groups. They comb the streets, the schools, and the malls, hot on the trail of the “next big thing” that will snare the attention of their prey–a market segment worth an estimated $150 billion a year. They are [...]
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on the Media
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” “Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.” This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America’s leading linguists and political dissidents (often called the most quoted man alive). It [...]








