Orwell Rolls in His Grave

Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth? Are Americans being sold a bill of goods by a handful of transnational media corporations and political elites whose interests have little in common with the interests of the American people? This film explores what the media doesn’t like to talk about-itself.



Filmmaker Robert Kane Pappas has brought together a former 60 Minutes Producer, a United States Congressman, as well as some of the country’s leading intellectual voices on the media to examine the mix of business, politics and ideology that is the modern mainstream media. Does the corporate media reflect public opinion or create it? Did the media help George Bush steal the presidency and market the Iraq war?



From the very size of the media monopolies and how they got that way to who decides what gets on the air and what doesn’t, the film moves through a troubling list of questions and news stories that go unanswered and unreported in the media. Are Americans being given the information a democracy needs to survive or have they been electronically lobotomized into loving Big Brother?