Pirated satellite feeds revealing U.S. media personalities’ contempt for their viewers come full circle in Spin. TV out-takes appropriated from network satellite feeds unravel the tightly-spun fabric of television—a system that silences public debate and enforces the exclusion of anyone outside the pack of journalists, politicians, spin doctors, and televangelists who manufacture the news. Spin moves through the L.A. riots and the floating TV talk-show called the 1992 U.S. presidential election.
Brian Springer
Director
Brian Springer
Self
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Al Gore
Self (archive footage)
Larry King
Self (archive footage)
Larry Agran
Self (archive footage)
Jim Bakker
Self (archive footage)
Bill Beutel
Self (archive footage)
Hillary Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Bush
Self (archive footage)
Tom Brokaw
Self (archive footage)
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