Orwell Rolls in His Grave is a 2003 American documentary film directed by Robert Kane Pappas and written by Pappas and Tom Blackburn.
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Documentary topic
The film covered topics including the Telecommunications Act of 1996, concentration of media ownership, political corruption, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the controversy over the 2000 US presidential election (particularly in Florida with Bush v. Gore), and the Carter vs. Reagan 1980 October Surprise theory.
Participants
Charles Lewis, Founder of the Center for Public Integrity
Robert McChesney, Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark Crispin Miller, Author, Professor at New York University
Bernie Sanders, Congressman from Vermont
Danny Schechter, Author and Media Critic
Vincent Bugliosi, Attorney and Author
Jeff Cohen, Founder of FAIR
Dennis Kucinich, former Congressman
Mark Lloyd, Visiting Professor at M.I.T.
Michael Moore, Journalist and Activist
John Nichols, Journalist and Activist
Greg Palast, Journalist and Author
Helen Thomas, Journalist and member of White House press corps
Screenings
The film has aired in October 2004, on Free Speech TV, a non-profit TV station based in Denver, Colorado and Link TV.
Reception
In 2004, Washington Post staff writer Desson Thomson found the documentary to feel like a do-over of the views and arguments in Fahrenheit 9/11, The Corporation and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism.