Saving the World, One Audience at a Time
I finally was able to present an article that was in the Los Angeles Times a couple of weeks ago. Entitled "Movies Shoot for Change," it discusses the trend toward movie documentaries that drop any pretense of even-handedness or even coy, subtle social messages in favor of full-blown advocacy. Think Supersize Me or An Inconvenient Truth or March of the Penguins or anything by Michael Moore. The article points out that, increasingly, the driving force behind these documentaries is wealthy individuals turned "filmanthropists" who use their deep pockets to get selected political and social issues in front of audiences. Profits are secondary.
Gabcast! Club MediaNote #24
***JERICHO UPDATE I faxed in the rather long list of MC101s and guests who signed up for the Paley Television Festival event on Tuesday evening. I followed up with a phone call to my contact at the Museum of TV & Radio and all appears to be well. I think we'll have a nice turnout; my guess is about 60. The program will be built around the CBS drama Jericho.
posted by Mike Eberts (AKA Your Humble Blogger) @ 1:40 PM
2 Comments:
Money has always paved the way for Politics. The more you have of it, the far better chances you have of seating the "appropriate" candidate on the bench. It doesn't stop at films, although, films tend to generate more media and thus more money into the pockets of the "filmanthropists". Corporate heads with long established careers and even longer valuable assests have usually greased their wheels into corporate and international politics by exchanging money with foreign hands so that in turn other political governments can be established according to the who's who of corporate America. Is that the way it will always be? Most likely, as long as we continue to generate films for the media.
does anyone know when the paley even ended?
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