Spin

APPROPIATE

1995 / 57min.

Rating7.4

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

Pirated satellite feeds revealing U.S. media personalities’ contempt for their viewers come full circle in Spin. TV out-takes appropriated from network satellite feeds unravel the tightly-spun fabric of television—a system that silences public debate and enforces the exclusion of anyone outside the pack of journalists, politicians, spin doctors, and televangelists who manufacture the news. Spin moves through the L.A. riots and the floating TV talk-show called the 1992 U.S. presidential election.

Directors

Actors

Larry King

Bill Clinton

Hillary Clinton

Al Gore

Barbara Bush

Brian Springer

Tom Brokaw

George H. W. Bush

Jerry Brown

Jim Bakker

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