Broadcast Blues wins Sacramento International Film Festival!
Wow, what a time. Thanks to Winston Jordan, Exec. Director of Cease Spin, and webmaster extraordinaire, we now have a blog!
And thanks to Marty Anaya and the Sacramento International Film Festival, we now have our first "Laurel." They honored us with the "Outstanding Environmental Vision" award.
"Environmental", for a movie about media, you say? Don't forget, media influences every aspect of our lives. When the media weights the few scientists who are funded by oil companies who discount climate change as being equal with the many scientists who are peer reviewed and factually back up climate change, we the people lose. The environment loses. But the broadcasters win, because it is cheap and easy to set up those kinds of arguments and pretend they are telling both sides of the story. Cheap and easy means more profits, but less credible information.
And thanks to Marty Anaya and the Sacramento International Film Festival, we now have our first "Laurel." They honored us with the "Outstanding Environmental Vision" award.
"Environmental", for a movie about media, you say? Don't forget, media influences every aspect of our lives. When the media weights the few scientists who are funded by oil companies who discount climate change as being equal with the many scientists who are peer reviewed and factually back up climate change, we the people lose. The environment loses. But the broadcasters win, because it is cheap and easy to set up those kinds of arguments and pretend they are telling both sides of the story. Cheap and easy means more profits, but less credible information.
Wow, what a time. Thanks to Winston Jordan, Exec. Director of Cease Spin, and webmaster extraordinaire, we now have a blog!
And thanks to Marty Anaya and the Sacramento International Film Festival, we now have our first "Laurel." They honored us with the "Outstanding Environmental Vision" award.
"Environmental", for a movie about media, you say? Don't forget, media influences every aspect of our lives. When the media weights the few scientists who are funded by oil companies who discount climate change as being equal with the many scientists who are peer reviewed and factually back up climate change, we the people lose. The environment loses. But the broadcasters win, because it is cheap and easy to set up those kinds of arguments and pretend they are telling both sides of the story. Cheap and easy means more profits, but less credible information.
Broadcasting 101: A producer can always find somebody to present a point of view, no matter how bogus. I had planned to illustrate this in Broadcast Blues: I found a professor from Lawrence, Kansas, who was willing to go on the air and say the Earth is flat. he would make a good case for it, too. And with airhead anchors who never ask a single hard followup question, a good portion of the viewing audience would buy it, would use his "Talking points" as their own. (This is one of the many great stories that didn't make it into the film.)
"It may be entertaining, but it sure as hell ain't news!" .......... from "The Broadcast Blues" theme song
And thanks to Marty Anaya and the Sacramento International Film Festival, we now have our first "Laurel." They honored us with the "Outstanding Environmental Vision" award.
"Environmental", for a movie about media, you say? Don't forget, media influences every aspect of our lives. When the media weights the few scientists who are funded by oil companies who discount climate change as being equal with the many scientists who are peer reviewed and factually back up climate change, we the people lose. The environment loses. But the broadcasters win, because it is cheap and easy to set up those kinds of arguments and pretend they are telling both sides of the story. Cheap and easy means more profits, but less credible information.
Broadcasting 101: A producer can always find somebody to present a point of view, no matter how bogus. I had planned to illustrate this in Broadcast Blues: I found a professor from Lawrence, Kansas, who was willing to go on the air and say the Earth is flat. he would make a good case for it, too. And with airhead anchors who never ask a single hard followup question, a good portion of the viewing audience would buy it, would use his "Talking points" as their own. (This is one of the many great stories that didn't make it into the film.)
"It may be entertaining, but it sure as hell ain't news!" .......... from "The Broadcast Blues" theme song