Starting in the early 90s, shortly after the first Gulf War, media networks in the US began experiencing a huge rise in both their ratings, revenues and viewership. Around this time, artist Brian Singer spent a year scanning satellite frequency bands and capturing back channel newsfeeds, the raw transmissions that broadcast news companies beamed back to their studios prior to manipulation and editing. The result of Singer’s experiments is an almost 60-minute documentary full of candid footage featuring presidential candidates, their staff, newscasters, and ordinary viewers, which paints an extremely clear picture of how major media networks came of age during the 90s and how the ’spin’ that is created and rebroadcast effects society and the American public’s perception of reality, which continues on to this day (Fox News anyone?). Full video after the jump…
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