The Brainwashing of my Dad
A documentary film by Jen Sanko
This is like the big media “13th” in that there is the history laid out before us and it is a very unhappy one of power and control.
The movie is personal stories of people who have watched loved ones become very unpleasantly affected by rightwing talk radio, Fox TV News. This is combined with relevant media studies sort of information. It centers on Jen Sanko’s elderly father. His politics and demeanor changed as a result of first commuting with rightwing talk radio and then Fox News.
Many of us have watched this happen to people we know, or maybe even to ourselves, for many years. It’s sadly too familiar.
The main contributions of the film consist of the information such as the tossing out of the Fairness Doctrine in the 1980s, which unleashed bias propaganda radio, and the Telecommunication Act in the 90s helping to further consolidate big corporate media power.
A documentary film by Jen Sanko
This is like the big media “13th” in that there is the history laid out before us and it is a very unhappy one of power and control.
The movie is personal stories of people who have watched loved ones become very unpleasantly affected by rightwing talk radio, Fox TV News. This is combined with relevant media studies sort of information. It centers on Jen Sanko’s elderly father. His politics and demeanor changed as a result of first commuting with rightwing talk radio and then Fox News.
Many of us have watched this happen to people we know, or maybe even to ourselves, for many years. It’s sadly too familiar.
The main contributions of the film consist of the information such as the tossing out of the Fairness Doctrine in the 1980s, which unleashed bias propaganda radio, and the Telecommunication Act in the 90s helping to further consolidate big corporate media power.
The movie also is helpful in illuminating the way rightwing media works in locking people in, practically physically, by engaging the emotions in a sustained hateful way that is exciting and oddly addicting to those who expose themselves to it. This was an outstanding section of the movie, for me anyway, already well converted to the POV of the filmmaker.
I don’t recall the film questioning the presence of this media in the home in the first place, like “CUT THE DAMN CABLE AND STOP PAYING THEM EVERY MONTH!”. But the fact is people want their cable TV, especially older ones and it has been ubiquitous for long enough to distort the whole country in it’s own image.
The movie was wrapped before the revelation of Roger Ailes sexually harassing, and more, countless women in his long career and TV, so there is none of that. He’s out, damage done.
I mean, look at this Trump character. Fox TV watcher filled with typical hate driving off the stage onto a wave of fellow brainwashees and surfing into the Whitehouse.
Party on TV people!
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