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Short Notice Film Series <> Tell the Truth and Run @ 9:30pm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jdu@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jul 24 16:49:55 2003
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:47:21 -0400
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The House voted yesterday to roll back the FCCs new ruling on media
consolidation. The Senate is poised to do the same. See today's Wall St
Journal for detailed coverage.
So the nation's media are once again a virile vehicle of veracity? Maybe we
should get some context before answering. This Academy Award-nominated
documentary will be a good start.
Admission cost is 25 cents; no pennies please. Description below.
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Tell The Truth and Run (USA, 1996)
111 mins.
This award-winning examination of censorship and suppression in the America
press profiles pioneering press critic George Seldes. Seldes was a noted foreign
correspondent in World War I and in the 1920s in Europe. Fiercely independent,
he was threatened with a court-martial by General Pershing, censored by the
Bolsheviks and expelled by the Italian Fascists in 1925, barely escaping with
his life. Seldes became a press critic in the 1930s. His books criticized the
"Lords of the Press" and the big money that distorted and colored the news. In
1940, he started his own investigative weekly, In Fact: An Antidote for
Falsehoods in the Daily Press, which pioneered modern American press criticism.
Seldes became a pariah in his own profession, ostracized and marginalized by the
mainstream press. But he profoundly influenced three generations of journalists
and activists, including I.F. Stone, editor of The Nation Victor Navasky, and
Ralph Nader. At age 98, Seldes is the centerpiece of the film. He is joined by
Ben Bagdikian, columnist Nat Hentoff, Jeff Cohen of the media-watchdog group
"Fair," Marian Seldes and several others.
