Orwell Rolls in His Grave
by Robert Kane Pappas
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Actor: Bernie Sanders, Charles Lewis (VI), Danny Schechter, Mark Crispin Miller, Robert McChesneyDirector: Robert Kane Pappas
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: GO-KART RECORDS
Movie Reviews of Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Movie Review: Exposing the illusion of diversity concealing a uniform deception
Summary: 5 Stars
Since there are already some very comprehensive and accurate reviews on this 5-Star documentary (based on content instead of glitz and cinematography), I would just like to emphasize a few important points that may have been missed or minimized.
First and foremost is the review from the 'New Yorker' relied on by Amazon above. "The film revisits issues that have been debated ad nauseam..." It is hard to imagine a more misleading and incorrect statement. The film persuasively makes its argument with issues that SHOULD have been debated ad nauseum in the mainstream media, due to their extreme importance and newsworthiness, but were not. The issue that may not be spoken of, the issue of corporate control of the media and corporations themselves, leads the list. Charles Lewis, former 60 Minutes producer turned media public interest crusader, delves headfirst into the issue with the disclosure of the little known fact that the biggest special interest lobby in Washington is the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). The documentary uses facts and observations from an impressive and diverse array of experts and weaves them around an equally impressive array of facts, statistics, interviews, and statements from public figures. Pappas doggedly summarizes some of the more important issues (already accurately outlined in many previous reviews) deliberately excluded or given short shrift by the corporate media monopoly, while at the same analyzing the corporate dominance of the media and the seldom examined results from that control (especially the non-reporting of issues and events that may be detrimental to the corporate media's interests specifically, and corporate interests generally). As Ralph Nader argued for the past thirty years or so, it is much like the old Soviet system where individuals in the Party could be criticized, and a host of other issues could be addressed, but the Party itself was a verboten issue. Similarly, the interviewees point out and evidence (especially with Charles Lewis) that bad corporate players may be attacked in the mainstream media, and an infinity of business-friendly issues and topics may be examined, but corporations as a topic unto itself is a verboten issue, other than singing the praises of corporatism (as the various corporate bootlickers that grace our television screens do ad nauseum infinitum, both implicitly and explicitly).
Pappas deftly weaves in the central theme of "1984": control of the media as a means to control society and subvert democracy. A controlled media is the foundational platform from which all the other tools of totalitarianism are launched. Control is effected not solely by censorship of information, expression, and events by the Ministry of Truth, but also by the re-writing of the past and selective reporting of the present to suit Big Brother's needs. Pappas effectively analogizes Big Brother, the fictional ethereal Stalinists in 1984, to Big Corporate, their modern-day nonfictional brothers in totalitarian spirit (albeit from the opposite side of the political extremist spectrum). By controlling who has access to the public forum, the corporate controllers of media select all the political candidates before elections are ever held. By deciding who gets to speak they decide who gets to run (see Dennis Kucinich for a working example of how this operates).
This is a successful effort to counter corporate propaganda and censorship. It does so with a comprehensive and dizzying assortment of facts, issues, and viewpoints, which, whether new to the viewer or a memory jolt, never should have been removed from the public radar screen.
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