Virtual objectivity
Subtitle: media and the critics
By: with Noam Chomsky ; producers, Rita M. Csapo, Judit Kopper
Contributors: Horvat, Janos; Dalrymple, William; Klozer, Charles L.; Bishop, Edward; Filmakers Library, inc
Series: TED 666 (NU course); ILR 260 (NU course)
Publisher: Filmakers Library
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng; hun
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Television broadcasting of news; Objectivity; Political aspects; Broadcast journalism; Journalism; Foreign news; Television broadcasting
Description: Videodisc release of the 1996 production.

Professor Noam Chomsky discusses the role of the increasing corporatization of the global mass media and evaluates the concept of journalistic "objectivity" in that context. Janos Horvat, notes that television news in America is show business. Edward Bishop says the media is not separate from society but reflects society. Klotzer and bishop point out that Americans do not cover issues from the "left" point of view as do the Europeans. The video also describes the role of CNN, with its clobal point of view and compares it to the more insular network television in the United States.
Notes: Editors, Zsolt Benedek, Ferenc Kraus, Farzad Warapoor ; voice over, Clint Harding.

DVD.

In English and Hungarian with English voiceover.