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The IFC Media Project New Fixations and Taboos
Season 1 , Episode 1This episode examines specific media obsessions as well as off-limit topics in news reporting. The first segment follows a media consultant who brokers the stories of abducted children to the newsmedia. The episode also looks at how the pro-Israel lobby influences the narrative in press coverage of Israel and US-Israel relations. -
The IFC Media Project The Frontlines of Journalism
Season 1 , Episode 2This episode follows Iraqi war photo-journalist Ben Lowy as he captures the conflict, people, occupation and reconstruction of this war-torn country. The feature piece looks at how the Bush administration used propaganda in the form of the embed program and the military analyst program to sell the war to the American people through the aid of the media. -
The IFC Media Project Dumbing it Down
Season 1 , Episode 3This episode details a behavioral experiment conducted by a Boston neuroscientist that looks at the mental and emotional effects of pundit-driven news. The feature piece uses a story about Big Pharma as an entry into understanding why we don't react to the news the way we used to. -
The IFC Media Project The Unreliable Sources
Season 1 , Episode 4The first part of this episode critiques the press coverage of the looming economic crisis on Wall Street. The feature piece looks at how New York's three major daily papers failed to critically cover the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, and is a case study in how big business controls the news. -
The IFC Media Project The Anatomy of a Story
Season 1 , Episode 5This episode follows a Spanish language reporter from El Diario La Prensa as she criss-crosses the country on a Greyhound bus seeking out Latino stories. The feature piece looks at how the narrative of the drug war has been played and replayed in the press. -
The IFC Media Project The Future of the News
Season 1 , Episode 6This episode will involve a media stunt that dares to predict a Utopian newspaper of tomorrow; we take a look at issues surrounding the news and information of the future; another installment of 'The Media Encyclopaedia'; an animated 'News Junkie'; and a feature interview with Arianna Huffington. -
The IFC Media Project American Worldview
Season 2 , Episode 1This episode focuses on how the United States is represented in the world's media, and how the world is (mis)represented within our own nation. The feature segment, hosted by former Al Jazeera producer Robb Wood, takes a look at the lack of availability of Al Jazeera English in the U.S.; another installment of 'The Media Encyclopaedia'; an animated 'News Junkie'; and an interview with BBC executive producer and creator of 'BCC World News America' Rome Hartman, regarding international vs. U.S. context within news stories. -
The IFC Media Project Crossing the Line
Season 2 , Episode 2This episode focuses on ethics in journalism. When is it OK--or not OK--for reporters to cross the line, in the name of pursuing a story? When do the rules on free speech come into play? The feature segment takes an in-depth look at the case of Muntander Al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist arrested in December 2008 for throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference in Iraq; another installment of 'The Media Encyclopaedia'; an animated 'News Junkie'; and an interview with Randy Cohen, Sunday Times Magazine 'The Ethicist' columnist. -
The IFC Media Project Agendas
Season 2 , Episode 3This episode challenges the media's agendas in business and political news coverage. The debate over clean coal and how it has been dominated by two competing public relations campaigns that obscure the fundamentals of what's really going on; the debate over the little discussed fact that we currently still need coal and will for a long time in the future. This episode's mini-feature focuses on activist Alex Jones, a prime example of below-the-radar anti-government voices in the media today, and how he gets his non-conventional voice heard. -
The IFC Media Project Economics and News
Season 2 , Episode 4This episode focuses on the state of the media in the current economy. Now that our country is in a state of crisis, can media outlets - and the news as we know it - survive? Multiple case studies and perspectives are presented from former media insiders on how media outlets have been forced to change financially, and which ones are benefiting most from the digital shift. This episode's mini-feature chronicles the death of the Rocky Mountain News after 149 years of existence. Told from the point of view of John Temple, Rocky Mountain News editor and publisher, this essay piece draws on footage shot between the day the closure was announced and the day the paper shut its doors for good. -
The IFC Media Project Government and the Media
Season 2 , Episode 5The IFC Media Project crew has been tracking the work of four journalists inside the White House press corps since President Obama's inauguration. Commentary from these journalists is weaved together to offer an intimate peek inside the White House press corps, including a portrait of how our nation's president directly relates with the media. This episode's mini-feature will take a lively look at the history, policy and trends that have affected just how transparent a look we get at our government in action. -
The IFC Media Project War
Season 3 , Episode 2Journalist Nir Rosen returns to Afghanistan (he was once kidnaped by the Taliban there) to unravel an unspoken angle of America's strategy for winning the war: Reconstruction. Nir follows the money, traveling first to a massive new power plant just outside Kabul. Having talked with Afghan Parliament members and regular Afghans alike, Nir returns to Washington DC to get some answers: Why has America poured $51 Billion since 2002 into rebuilding a country with such miserable results? He confronts first Louis Berger and then the US Government that keeps signing their checks. -
The IFC Media Project Greed
Season 3 , Episode 3We meet up with former NY Times reporter Charlie LeDuff in his hometown, Detroit MI. Charlie moved back two years ago to work for the Detroit News and, two years later, the paper's bankrupt, the metro reporting desk is empty and Detroit is being swarmed daily by a flock of national media. -
The IFC Media Project Disaster
Season 3 , Episode 4When Haiti's capital was flattened in a massive earthquake, the world's Media marshaled their forces and descended on the Disaster zone. In this episode, we hear from a host of journalists as they attempt to cover the unimaginable. Focusing on Andrew Berends, a photojournalist and documentarian who's worked in Iraq and been kidnapped in Nigeria, we travel throughout the country, from devastated Port-au-Prince to the beautiful and untouched countryside.
