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Who should do something about the social problem?
- Individuals
- as consumers (of news, of advertisers' products)
- as citizens, voters
- as workers
- Institutions
- Journalism and journalists, media outlets
- the business model (advertising)
- over-reliance on official sources
- public and independent media?
- 'watchdog' function
- Government
- break up the media conglomerates
- Federal Communications Commission as regulatory body--greater public participation (rather than being 'captured' by corporate media)
- Greater, but less scripted, access to government officials
- Campaign financing (what happens when there are no limits?)
- Alternative media
- Some documentaries worth seeing
- A Crude Awakening (end of oil?? That's crazy talk!)
- An Inconvenient Truth (laying out the evidence for global warming)
- Food, Inc. (from farms to factories--you'll never eat again ...)
- Supersize Me (not just a diet--a complete documentary, two thumbs up from sociologists in many places!)
- Inside Job (CEOs got bailouts and bonuses and all I got was this lousy recession!)
- Hot Coffee (lawsuit abuse or corporate takeover of civil law? You decide!)
- The Corporation (what if your neighbor was a corporation?)
- Billionaires's Tea Party (Grassroots, Freedom and Liberty, LLC®)
- The Yes Men ('correcting' identities, or unauthorized 're-branding')
- Why we Fight (the military industrial complex, war, and so much more)
- Bowling for Columbine (guns, violence, US society, and surprisingly little about gender--here's the Marilyn Manson teaser)
- The Century of the Self (learn about Edward Bernays, the most influential person you've never heard of--shows growth of the propaganda industry)
- Manufacturing Consent (about Noam Chomsky, but more about his work on mass media, politics, propaganda, and .... manufacturing consent)
- Outfoxed (it may not be good journalism, but it's sure good business--somewhat dated, but still a keen glimpse into Rupert Murdoch's empire)
- Two films worth watching: Wag the Dog (where art imitates life ...), and Thank You for Smoking (repeat after me: personal choice ...)
- Social movements/activism
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