'Broadcast Blues' to screen at DMA
A screening will take place at community media center Davis Media Access (DMA), Thursday, Oct. 3 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. DMA is located at 1623 Fifth Street in Davis. Parking is available along Fifth Street, and bike parking is also available.
California Common Cause, the Sacramento Media Group, and the Media Action Center are sponsoring a screening series of the award-winning documentary film, "Broadcast Blues," a scathing look at the state of American broadcasting today.
In a no-holds barred exposé, veteran journalist Sue Wilson explains how corporations controlling talk radio are influencing American public opinion and actually changing the way we vote. Wilson said she details "how false and vitriolic hate campaigns are broadcast as legitimate news reports and laments the lack of government controls which should ensure radio and television broadcasters are upholding their public interest obligations."
Through a series of vignettes, the film shows how media policy changes stemming from the Reagan era have corrupted American news, information, and even public safety. Wilson gives as a prime example, the story of how Sacramento-area resident Jennifer Strange was killed in a reckless water drinking stunt, and how the Federal Communications Commission refuses to take action against the station. Wilson says it is up to the public to hold broadcasters as well as the government regulators accountable in order to “take the media back."
A local screening will take place at community media center Davis Media Access (DMA), Thursday, Oct. 3 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. DMA is located at 1623 Fifth Street in Davis. Parking is available along Fifth Street, and bike parking is also available.
The screening is free, with donations gladly accepted and benefiting DMA.
For more information about Broadcast Blues and media issues, please contact sue@mediaactioncenter.net