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Democracy Now
Human Behavior And Social Environment
Democracy Now episode critique
Sundance Film Festival
URL: http://www.democracynow.org/
Date of the show: January 24, 2011
Tax Justice Network USA chair Jack Blum; Sheena Joyce, co-director of the new documentary The Atomic States of America, and Robert Redford
This show profiles several movie-makers with features being shown at the Sundance Film Festival. The films deal with areas of social justice. The first speaker appears as a 'talking head' in a documentary entitled We're Not Broke, a film on the widespread phenomenon of corporate tax evasion in America. The second speaker, the director Sheena Joyce, discusses America's long and troubling relationship with the use of nuclear power. The final speaker, Robert Redford, is a well-known actor and director as well as the creator of the Sundance Film Festival. He designed the festival to showcase radical and independent films offering a different perspective upon American public issues.
Rationale (3-5)
The main reason I chose this feature was because the media has been subjected to great scrutiny and criticism in recent months, in terms of the way it covers political...
However, this program demonstrates that many 'liberal' issues do not receive a great deal of airtime, despite contentions of supposed liberal bias in the mainstream media. I was particularly interested in the issue of under-taxation of corporations. More and more Americans are struggling with their finances, yet little is being done to ensure that corporate entities that receive many benefits from residing in the U.S. pay their 'fair share.'
Issue and social system (3-5 sentences)
The speakers all fuse their ideology with their political interests. They present their issues from an admittedly partisan viewpoint but still strive to create art. Blum is a lawyer and chair of Tax Justice Network USA, a lobbying group that fights to curtail what it sees as excessive influence of corporations in writing the tax code of the United States. Joyce's film depicts a Long Island town whose water supply was contaminated by nuclear waste. Redford created the Sundance Film Festival based upon his belief that large corporate interests are often unwilling to tell stories that reveal uncomfortable truths about the power balance in America.
Critique (7-10 sentences)
The most pertinent perspective is offered by Blum, given that the…
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