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The Power—and Role—of the Press

This documentary from Australia, the country that gave Rupert Murdoch to the world, questions the power and role of journalists today, when lives can be shattered by a typed innuendo, entire governments have been known to tumble, and reporters, barely out of school, wield immense and seemingly uncontrolled power. The program examines the inconsistent and fragmented system of ethics and accountability governing journalism, and looks at the market forces, tricks, pressures, and traps that are part of everyday news gathering and packaging. Exposing the pitfalls of checkbook journalism, it shows how even ethical journalists can become part of a media frenzy and points to the need for greater journalistic accountability. (56 minutes)



 
    

Item#: BVL5240
Copyright date: ©1993
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-2061-8




     
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The Truth About Lies
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The public mind is often deceived by those who manipulate it, and it deceives itself, as well. This program examines how deception has influenced some of the major events of our recent past and how self-deception shapes our personal lives and the pub...(more details)
 
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Hollywood's Role in Shaping Values: David Puttnam
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Those who stand outside our culture often view it with a lens made more accurate by distance and perspective. An Englishman on intimate terms with America, film producer David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields ) sees in our movies the ...(more details)
 
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Extra! Extra! See All About It!

With its principal focus on Boston's two giant newspapers, the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald, and with lesser glances at two smaller regional suburban papers, this program looks at the faces behind the bylines and examines the exhilaration and f...(more details)
 
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Investigative Reporting: The Righteous Lens
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Investigative reporting is expensive, time-consuming, labor-intensive; it can be dangerous-and you can get sued. The resultant slack in network news investigative reporting has been taken up by some local stations. And, as this program illustrates, t...(more details)
 
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Talk, Talk, Talk: Opinion or Fact?

Radio and television bombard people with information every day. Each person must sort through and assimilate all of the information into ideals, beliefs, and truths of their own. But how does a person do this? How much influence do the words and idea...(more details)
 
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