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Director:

Brian Springer

Writer:

Brian Springer (writer)

Plot:

Pirated satellite feeds revealing U.S. media personalities' contemptuous plans for their viewers come full circle in Spin... more | add synopsis

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Crude and simple, but utterly fascinating! more (5 total)


Cast

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Larry Agran ... Himself (archive footage)
Jim Bakker ... Himself (archive footage)
Bill Beutel ... Himself (archive footage)
Tom Brokaw ... Himself (archive footage)
Jerry Brown ... Himself (archive footage)
Barbara Bush ... Herself (archive footage)
George Bush ... Himself (archive footage)
Michael Caputo ... Himself (archive footage)

Bill Clinton ... Himself (archive footage)
Hillary Rodham Clinton ... Herself (archive footage)
Katie Couric ... Herself (archive footage)

Sam Donaldson ... Himself (archive footage)

Jerry Falwell ... Himself (archive footage)
Al Gore ... Himself (archive footage)
Tipper Gore ... Herself (archive footage)
Harold Greene ... Himself (archive footage)
Bryant Gumbel ... Himself (archive footage)
Nanette Hansen ... Herself (archive footage)
Tom Harkin ... Himself (archive footage)

Peter Jennings ... Himself (archive footage)
Bob Kerrey ... Himself (archive footage)

Larry King ... Himself (archive footage)
Ted Koppel ... Himself (archive footage)
Christine Lund ... Herself (archive footage)
Andrea Mitchell ... Herself (archive footage)
Peggy Noonan ... Herself (archive footage)
Ross Perot ... Himself (archive footage)
Dan Quayle ... Himself (archive footage)
Dan Rather ... Himself (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan ... Himself (archive footage)
Pat Robertson ... Himself (archive footage)
Charlie Rose ... Himself (archive footage)
Diane Sawyer ... Herself (archive footage)

Harry Smith ... Himself (archive footage)
Brian Springer ... Himself
Jimmy Swaggart ... Himself (archive footage)
Paul Tsongas ... Himself (archive footage)
Paula Zahn ... Herself (archive footage)
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Additional Details

Runtime:

57 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono


Fun Stuff

Quotes:

[first lines]
Brian Springer: 1992 was the year of kings. There was the L.A.P.D. beating of Rodney King videotaped from an apartment balcony and the hovering coverage of TV cameras and helicopters circling the city as the public rebelled. It was nearly twenty-five years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King and Bill Clinton, a child of the '60s, was campaigning to become commander-in-chief, a king among the contenders.
Off-screen voice: Hold on just a minute, here's Larry King.
Larry King: Hello?
Brian Springer: Then there was Larry King, who was anointed as the father of talk-show democracy, because TV viewers could phone his program and ask the candidates questions on the air.
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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Crude and simple, but utterly fascinating!, 19 September 2006
9/10
Author: ajji-2 from Lahore, Pakistan

wow! i wasn't expecting a lot from this documentary since it seemed to deal with a dry subject, but it just sucked me right in. using only 'found footage' (satellite feeds from across the USA broadcast networks, which include on-the-fly footage and almost imperceptible ostensibly-off-camera conversations, all of which are not supposed to be recorded, let alone aired!?), Brian Springer has fashioned an eye-opening exposé of media manipulation and those ruthlessly efficient and mechanically precise 'spin doctors', around the time of the 1992 presidential election. some of the candid conversations and expressions caught unawares, are jaw-dropping, alarming, and hilarious...often at the same time. the way Larry Agran, a strong (initially, that is) candidate was 'blanked out' by the media to the point where probably nobody even remembers him running for the post, is spine-chilling stuff, all the more so for being non-fiction! unlike Michael Moore, however, there is no manipulation, or bias towards (or against) any party. what we see is so matter-of-fact, it makes you wonder if these people really belong to the human race at all.

this 56 minute film is a must-see for students of mass media, politics, propaganda, and American history. as per usual with this kind of 'subversive, controversial, potentially damaging' stuff, this film is not widely available. thanks to the wonderful invention called internet (possibly the only area where nobody has any real authority or monopoly on anything), i downloaded this from a site for free. three cheers for the last (relatively) untamed frontier.

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