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GRITtv: The F Word: Leaving the People Out of the Debate
“Occasionally you see pictures and they're standing in some long line or applying for jobs, but they're not thought of,” said GRITtv guest Edrie Irvine recently, speaking of unemployed people like her. It's not just the unemployed we don't tend to see on U.S. TV. Take public workers. They're in the news every day, but it's not actually them. It's people talking about them. Politicians, pundits and propagandists targeted them for cuts and layoffs. But public workers themselves are barely in the conversation. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Email this pageGRITtv: Jenn Pozner & Anna McCarthy: Talking Television
Mad Men harks back to an era when advertising was art and television was educational -- maybe. Meanwhile, reality television gives us messages that seem to fit right in with a 1950s ethos -- right down to the race, gender, and class politics. Television is everywhere, and everyone is talking about it, so we asked Anna McCarthy, NYU professor and author of The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America, and Jennifer Pozner, executive director of Women in Media and News and author of Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV, to join us to talk TV. Anna and Jenn discuss educational programming and escapism, Mad Men and mommy wars, and of course, the power of advertising in this Friday's feature conversation.
GRITtv: Daryn Strauss: Watching Women in Digital TV
It's 2010 and for the first time in history a female filmmaker won an Oscar for Best Directing. Mind you, we've had four women total ever be nominated, so it's tough to win when you're not even in the race. We look on TV and see an abundance of women: Desperate Housewives, The Closer, Damages, Weeds, I could go on. We look at the box office and we see films like Sex and the City and Twilight, which had the highest grossing opening for a film by a female director ever. Even when it comes to comics and heroes, we were given Buffy... Daryn Strauss is creator of the critically acclaimed web series, Downsized and the website, Digital Chick TV.
GRITtv: Gigi Sohn: Your TV, Your Choice
Consolidation amonst media companies continues. Comcast just bought NBC. Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge takes some time to explain why cable companies and movie studios want to control what you can watch and when.
GRITtv: Demystifying the Media: Joel Silberman
Ever wonder how people manage to get their point across so well in a brief time on the TV? Why certain politicians become media darlings while others stumble and stammer? Most of them are very well coached. We peel back the curtain a bit with Joel Silberman, strategic communications consultant/trainer with the New Organizing Institute and an award-winning theatrical director and performer. Silberman gives us some quick tips for doing media that anyone can use should they find themselves on the receiving end of a camera.
GRITtv: The Things They Carry
More than one million soldiers have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan over the last eight years. Close to 4,500 have died in Iraq and nearly 20 percent of those who return have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Well over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed. As Memorial Day approaches how will soldiers, families of soldiers, and the rest of our society reflect on the dead and those still living with the trauma of war? Today on GRITtv Darren Subarton a veteran who served in the Army?s 101st Air Borne Division, Joshua Kors who has written extensively on the experience of veterans returning from war, Dan Lohaus director of When I Came Home, and Nada Michael, a student in social work at Smith College, discuss the challenges veterans face, dealing with the VA, and what likely won't be discussed Memorial Day.
GRITtv: Health Insurers Aim to Kill Public Option
The nation's for profit health insurers are out to scuttle anything within the Obama health care plan that might be about anything public. One week after the insurance lobby pledged to President Obama to voluntarily constrain rising costs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is preparing a public message campaign aimed at killing the public non-profit part of Obama's reform plan. Anyone who's been watching has heard the data that have them so scared. A government-run plan, with no need for profits for Wall Street or bonuses to retain CEOs -- a public plan run only to deliver healthcare not profits -- would cut the cost of healthcare.
GRITtv: Marshall Ganz and the Peace Movement
A report on Marshall Ganz and the peace movement.
