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Programming the Nation?
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Wikipedia article
'Programming the Nation?' is a 2011 feature social documentary written, produced, and directed by Jeff Warrick. The film explores subliminal programming in American mass media.
Kevin Thomas of the 'Los Angeles Times' reviewed 'Programming the Nation?' noting that "Warrick is... rightly concerned by the power of media conglomerates to manipulate the news."[http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-capsules-programming-the-nation-20110923,0,3550409.story LA Times review]
Interviews
Interview subjects included:
* Noam Chomsky asserts that The purpose of the ad is to delude and deceive you with imagery [The public] will be uninformed and make an irrational choice. Thats what businessmen spend hundreds and millions of dollars a year onwhat they want is coercion and control."
* Wilson Bryan Key states, "You look at something, smell something, hear something, it's going into your brain at the speed of light... And all being retained..." Key claims that only small bits and fragments of this actually rise to the "conscious surface." Key claims that Freud warned about "toying" with the subconscious due to its highly unexplored and misunderstood nature, coupled with its capacity to set off unpredictable pathological response.
* August Bullock discusses Sigmund Freud's probing of the subconscious mind, and his postulations about the presence of hidden emotions and drives. According to Bullock, Freud believed the barrier between conscious and subconscious awareness relaxed and through analyzing and interpreting dreams, we could better understand out underlying motivations and emotions and the conflicts caused by them.
* Dennis Kucinich says, "There should be criminal implications for this kind of behavior media manipulation Kucinich states.
* Douglas Rushkoff, asserts that Edward Bernays, Freud's nephew, utilized Freudian psychoanalytic theory to provide consumers with substitutes for their carnal urges in the form of a product.
* Dr. Eldon Taylor claims that public relations pioneer Edward Bernays, in his 1928 book 'Propaganda', states that it's "the duty of marketing people to lead an otherwise, unleadable, irrational, free people to making a consensus or a decision that was a responsible decision." Taylor says marketing is founded on manipulation and influence.
* Amy Goodman states, They have a responsibility to bring out full diversity of opinion and to get to the truth, not to bring you news stories that are disguised as their own when they are simply government or corporate propaganda.
Cast
Screenings
* Seattle True Independent Film Festival - June 8, 2010
* Carnegie Community Center Vancouver, B.C. - June 12, 2010
* St. Pete for Peace Film Series - Wednesday, October 27, 2010
* Theatrical Premiere - New York City - August 1925, 2011
* True Crime New York Series: Post 9/11 Universe - Sept. 16, 2011
References
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