ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE
(Pappas / USA / 2003 / 103mins / digital / no cert)
(Sun 13th / 7:30pm / £4/3)

Writer/director/editor/narrator Robert Kane Pappas offers up a consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate (the public press), once the bastion of American democracy. This documentary explores what the media doesn't like to talk about: itself. By focusing on the very filters through which news, and the history formed from accumulated reportage and research, are constructed.
Has society entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for truth? Are Americans being given the infomation a democracy needs to survive or have they been electronically lobotomised? Helping to answer these troubling questions are several former network producers, political documentary staples Micheal Moore and Tony Benn, several former network producers and lawyers, and other concerned parties. -Followed by a secret feature of the directors choosing!
see www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/07/int04035.html