FARMINGTON – The video “Orwell Rolls in His Grave” will be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Room 217 of Ricker Hall on the campus of the University of Maine at Farmington.
This video, by director Robert Kane Pappas, is a critical examination of the Fourth Estate. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak in which outright lies can pass for the truth, Pappas explores what the media doesn’t like to talk about: itself.
Tracing the process by which Pappas says the media has distorted and often dismissed actual news events, the video presents media professionals and leading intellectual voices on the media.
Among the cast of characters in “Orwell Rolls in His Grave” are Charles Lewis, director of the Center for Public Integrity; Vincent Bugliosi, former Los Angeles prosecutor and legal scholar; film director and author Michael Moore; U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders; Danny Schecter, author and former producer for ABC and CNN; and Tony Benn, former member of the British Parliament.
From the size of media monopolies and how they got that way, to who decides what gets on the air and doesn’t, the video moves through a list of questions and news stories that go unanswered and unreported in the mainstream media.
The screening is part of an film series sponsored by Western Mountains Peace Action Workshop. It is free and open to the public.
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