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“The point of the show is that American journalism and especially broadcast journalism right now seems to be spiraling downward,” said Gideon Yago, the host of the six half-hour installments.
Similarly, the second episode’s long examination of television military analysts, titled “How to Sell a War,” does not include the perspective of the networks that hired the analysts and allowed them to espouse the government’s talking points without any disclosures about their ties to the Pentagon or to defense contractors. The segment is based on an investigation by The New York Times in April and includes an interview with the Times reporter David Barstow.
Meghan O’Hara, the program’s creator and executive producer, said the omission was not for lack of trying. “None of them wanted to talk to us,” she said.
While the series is essentially an exercise in media literacy, it is far less academic than one might expect. Each episode includes an editorial cartoon, “News Junkie,” that pokes fun at media stereotypes and shortcomings. While the media criticism programs on cable news, “Fox News Watch” and CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” emphasize debates among guests, “The IFC Media Project” prefers taped segments and one-on-one interviews. The third episode applies neuroscience to so-called shout shows to see why pundit-driven talk is so entertaining to viewers.
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