Today the cry is get ratings -entertain us! So what do we do wih boring reality. Using the excuse we were only obeying orders, we seek out those dealing with scandal, crime, the exotic, and with pious energy record every naughty deed. We even tart up the ordinary in an effort to make it sexy. Are we being hypocritical, or should we stay pure and let the other channel have the ratings?
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FRONTLINE goes behind the scenes of television coverage of the Michael Jackson story to look at the people, organizations and economic pressures that have led to the…
Tabloid Truth: Michael Jackson Story
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May 1993: A man takes a classic hostage at a kindergarten in Neville (Paris) and summons the press. He demands a television set in order to able to monitor how the…
Television as a Hostage
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The Rainbow Man is a critical portrait of Greenpeace, the environmental protection organization. The programme unleashed a chain of reactions from Greenpeace when it was…
The Rainbow Man
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