Like a Record, Baby

I recently stumbled across this fascinating look behind the scenes of mainstream media in the nineties.

"Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public's perception of reality."

It's long...57 minutes long...at this point I've only had time to watch the first twenty or so, but don't let the length scare you it's definitely worth checking out. My favorite moments so far are Larry King telling Clinton that if he gets elected Ted Turner will "work for him," and the footage of the whitebread news anchors dealing with the Rodney King riots. It would be laughable if it wasn't so awfully real.

It's pretty obvious why this film was ignored when it came out, and it is sadly ironic that this fact only provides more evidence of the mainstream media's ability to restrict and select favorable content.

But that was the nineties. They didn't have YouTube.