spin ( 1995 film )
spin is a 1995 documentary film by brian springer composed of raw satellite feeds featuring politicians' pre - appearance planning .
spin is a followup of the 1992 film feed; for which springer provided much of the raw satellite footage .
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spin is a 1995 documentary film by brian springer composed of raw satellite feeds exposing politicians' pre - appearance planning. it covers, not only the united states presidential primaries, 1992 and presidential election, but also the la riots as well as the operation rescue abortion protests. see how far we have come in 16 years .
i think you are missing the point that this took place in 1995 when people were less aware of all the work that was taking place in the background .
it' s a shame springer didn' t do much else in film, he had a knack for dodging the obstacles most documentarians get stuck on, and making it into something powerful without forcing every bit of interest out of it. incredible film, and despite an abrupt ending, that final shot is just outstanding .
pirated satellite feeds revealing u. s. media personalities' contemptuous plans 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 which silences public debates and furthers the intolerance of anyone outside the pack of journalists, politicians, spin doctors and televangelists who manufacture the news. spin moves through the l. a. rebellion and the floating tv talk - show called the 1992 u. s. presidential election .
omg! you know there is spin but to actually witness it is another thing. omg, some of the s # it that comes out of these newsanchors' mouths .
pirated satellite feeds revealing u. s. media personalities' contemptuous plans for their viewers come full circle in spin. tv out - takes appropriated from network satellite feeds unravel the... see full summary »
the result of his research is spin, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the american public' s perception of reality .
take the time to watch it from beginning to end and you' ll never look at tv reporting the same again. tell your friends about it. this extraordinary film released in the early 1990s is almost completely unknown. hopefully, the internet will change that .
intensely close to the action, it' s incredible how unrestrained and vicious brian springer is as a director, while offering nothing but facts. unbiased, yet says so much more than if he were to put his own spin on it .
having said that. i searched for about an hour for a stream of feed somewhere and couldn' t find anything, so if anybody does find it i' ll be over the moon. i really enjoyed spin so i feel i' ll really like feed too .
someone please tell me where i can find a copy of this for sale! this should be mandatory viewing for high school students and every american. this pretty much killed pat robertson' s hopes of becoming president. it is amazing to really see the discriminatory remarks come from his mouth and then to hear the television producers (or the spinners) laud his behavior. i know people who protest at political rallies and upon seeing this film, i was able to inform them how the television directors will manipulate the camera set - ups and microphone set - ups to cut them out of the shot, making it impossible for the protesters to be seen or heard. the wide shots simply make it seem as if they are a part of the crowd supporting him. an amazing piece of film. also, see the film
feed
( 1992) which is even more great political footage recorded by the same director, brian springer .
if the film made that link at any point, i definitely missed it... and if that was the point, are you at all surprised to learn that larry king is an empty suit? i was always under the impression that his' kid gloves' style is the reason he got all of his guests... low risk .
i think the fact i saw this based on a lot of breathless hype in a reddit thread about it being eye opening and mind blowing was a big factor in being underwhelmed by this film, because i' m not sure what the huge revelation here is. every politician of a certain level has handlers and spin doctors, and spinning off a probing question onto one of your preferred talking points is a technique almost as old as politics itself. larry king constantly comes off as an egotistical, king making sleazeball, katie couric is not so cute and fuzzy when she thinks she' s off air, and of no surprise to anyone, pat robertson is a hateful, scheming little shrew .
using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker brian springer captures the behind - the - scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. pat robertson banters about
homos ,
al gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, george bush talks to larry king about halcyon - - all presuming they' re off camera. composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, spin is a surreal expose of media - constructed reality. brian springer
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: 1992 was the year of kings. there was the l. a. p. d. beating of rodney king videotaped from an apartment balcony and the hovering coverage of tv cameras and helicopters circling the city as the public rebelled. it was nearly twenty - five years after the assassination of dr. martin luther king and bill clinton, a child of the' 60s, was campaigning to become commander - in - chief, a king among the contenders .
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perot told us 25 years ago people! this would happen and it did ...
yes. ted turner is a big fan, he' d uh, he' d like to serve you .
i have to say i was massively disappointed by larry king. i did not expect such complacency from him. that bit with perot was also very unsettling .
yeah the most revealing part of this whole doc is how much of a dick larry king is .
larry king has been with cnnia since' 85. that' s like 25 years of sucking the dick of the supposed democratic propaganda wheel. so of course, when king interviews someone not in line with the company direction, king is not going to hold them up like when he did with clinton .
king might be a good speaker and journalist, but his joining cnnia pretty much put an end to his radio journalism direction where he managed to piss off a lot of corporate heads .
same here. had no clue king was such a scumbag. and a drug peddler !
yeah, i forgot about that one! what a fucking douche. his ego is bigger than the building too, i had no idea. fucker plays his cards right .
true! even bush and clinton seemed a little creeped out by his halcion - pushing :) sleazy old geezer. sleazer .
clinton was smart enough to keep mum. he wasn' t dumb enough to say something that incriminating in public. perhaps... .
if you' re on the fence about watching this don' t let its homemade quality put you off. i' m about twenty minutes in and it' s a unique and illuminating look at one aspect of the political process .
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this sound clip is waaaay overused. i' m twenty minutes in and that' s my only real complaint so far. it' s already stuck in my head .
drove me crazy last night. but after watching a minute of it i was too sucked in to care anymore .
but... but it is an hour. the injustice of these downvotes !
it really boggles my mind to imagine how much more this kind of stuff must have advanced with how heavily technology has also moved. imagine the amount of power real - time monitoring of social networks for example must give .
something i didn' t expect from this was seeing people trying to get around being muted by the media, like the dr from mlk hospital at around 20: 00 .
i remember posting' 10 / 10 would watch again' on 4chan when this got posted like 2 years ago. i guess i have to watch it again .
i' ve seen only the trailer and this talk / q & a about it but i' m sold. his comments about the life of kate austin led me to a pdf repository of an anarchist / labor newspaper she often contributed to, entitled lucifer the lightbearer. and the droning computer - generated narration in the trailer made me keen to find out if i could endure 70 minutes of it .
two tears later they made wag the dog. i wonder if they' re related .
i saw this when i first saw feed and thought they were like a companion set of videos but now that i look i guess they' re made by different people. so if you want to see a similar thing, look that one up (i couldn' t find it on youtube )
as far as i know no. those days were analog and what he was receiving was intended for tv stations not the public. i assume everything is encrypted now .
i' m guessing even if it is not, you break some sort of laws if you intercept the signal .
this is why i come to this subreddit. most documentaries here are lack luster. but occasionally, you find a gem like this .
not to be
that guy
but you saw all this stuff happen with ron paul also. i' m sure its happened every election .
i heard ron paul talk about how the media was distorting his campaign etc. i never saw it portrayed candidly like this .
i could not believe i' d never heard about this raw satellite feed business until i watched this awesome documentary .
i wouldn' t be surprised if this was used in the development of west wing. a lot of congruent themes .
thank you. this was extremely intriguing and i' ll make sure i forward this to my politically conscious friends .
this documentary shows that there is prep, planning, make - up jobs & rehearsing... but it never really ties those things to anything... i kept thinking ,
so what ?
you missed the part where the media is the covert ally of the political process, feigning representation of the viewers interests when in reality they are merely a conduit for whatever bs their guests want to spew. it exposes the illusion of independent and driven journalism, it' s all just political theater and there is no fourth estate .
then you missed the part where the campaigns produce their own
news segments
complete with news anchor script to be given to news stations and run as actual news segments when they' re really campaign ads .
rather than just doing a copy n paste of my previous comment... .... i' ll just say that all of the illusions and campaign - ad - news - segments are definitely lame... and should stop... but this documentary does a poor job of exposing anything that isn' t pretty widely known nor does it explain the negative impact they have... if you can get there on your own, godspeed [ and you probably don' t need to watch this at all to come to the same conclusions ] ...
i' ll attempt to be positive... this documentary might lead a viewer who is unaware of the current state of cable news to explore the impacts that lazy or soft journalism has... . if they were motivated enough by what they saw in this documentary. i' ll stop whining now... good stuff, thanks for the chat .
most memorable documentary i' ve seen. loved it when i discovered it 2 years ago and still do. it needs to circulate like wildfire every election season when the brains get washed by corporate whore media .
what is it that you thought this would accomplish? you do know that reddit isn' t just for you and just because you' ve seen something continually reposted doesn' t give you the right to deprive other people of it. that' s so selfish and inconsiderate. there' s obviously, judging by the success of the post, a good amount of people who enjoyed it. just ignore it if you already seen it, it' s a lot cheaper than complaining about it. complaining about it just makes you look like a whiny self centered little cunt .
sooo... i couldn' t help but notice you have a lot of shakti going on there .
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artist brian springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption .
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it' s just a mater of having a tuner designed for the particular frequency range. you can adapt any dish to pick up frequencies outside the normal range called a (broad band pass filter). i installed the equipment on a giant commercial satellite dish that use to pick up the evening news form london many years ago. this dish sent the very first trans atlantic tv signal back in the 50s. later on, a man named peter jennings was the anchor man, a real babe magnet, athletic sort o guy, but he smoked marlborough cigarets like a smoke stack. i would see the feed coming in for about an hour before the broadcast would start, that was before cable tv when the signals were all air bound. it always amazed me that he smoked. as you might expect he died of lung cancer at 55. as long as the signal isn' t encrypted you can pick it up. there is some really bizarre stuff to pick up out there, you' ll be amazed. we even heard transmissions from antarctica with scientists talking to their colleagues back home. you have to realize this dish was a special dish 75 feet across, and 100 feet high with a very broad spectrum from microwave frequency to radio frequency capabilities, and a few million dollars worth of frequency analyzers. the satellite was a (geosynchronous / stays fixed over one spot on the globe) satellite, as are most communications satellites. it hovers over the mid ocean, because of the curvature of the earth, so the signal goes up and is relayed back down overcoming the curvature. the satellite is so far out in space, i believe the (tellstar) early satellite was about 500 to 3000 miles out if i' m not mistaken, whats known as apogee, and perogee. fun for the whole family, including the nsa. i know more than you wanted to hear ,
sorry
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why are the bad guys wining? cause they take freaking action, we the ones who try to do something are often paralized by those who are too bussy complining about everything, you cant suspect everybody of working for the system! !! , you paranoid people! !! !, and even if it was propaganda, still, all this deluded people who think they are doing good but are acctually working for the
great power
to take over afrika, are getting together doing something, later they may unite to do actual good that doesnt fullfill the systems agenda cause there will be an stablished group .
thank you, brian! this country is still the best place to live in this chaotic world mainly for people like you and the freedom we still enjoy with the so far unobstructed internet. i' ll spread this as far as i can. thank you too, tdf !
this is awesome - wish it could be done in this day in time ...
a must see. amateur but good. i cannot help to just shutter when i watch how they act and what they see... they believe in make up and cover ups .
truly bizarre really... but i hope people begin to wake the hell up. because we do not live in a democracy .
if you think you do live in a democracy... consider this. when you goto the polls and vote. . how many choices do you have ?
3 / 300 million + people... you do the math. you. . yes you... and i do not live in a democracy. it is just a fact .
pretty interesting, especially if you are old enough to remember the players and the time it happened. very funny watching larry king campaign with each of the three nominee' s to to be asked to be the moderator for the debate
i really enjoyed seeing the older footage and seeing slightly forgotten characters. we' ve come so far since this was relevant and so much has happened since then .
i found that some of the subject matter he covered actually shed some light and reminded me a several things i haven' t thought of for a long time. it' s so different when you' re on the outside looking in. if we understood what goes on behind the scenes, it would completely change the way we look at media in our society .
it runs about an hour, and i' d recommend it to anyone who has an interest in the subject. you can see how they were just starting to do things, as compared to the sophistication of how they do it now. he also did a great job of preserving the media historically, capturing it over time from various raw satellite feeds .
can it change your life? no guarantees there, but it could help you make better informed decisions. all i can say is don' t ever take anything for face value. these people are professionals and they know exactly what they are doing. it' s a science that has been evolving and gaining unparalled levels of sophistication - all for the purpose of controlling and manipulating your decisions .
i like how the producer / director not only dished out a bunch of footage but strung together a very convincing and despite its running time entertaining narrative .
you get a sense that the guy knows how the media circus plays us. and how much they are in bed with the political establishment .
excellent documentary. lots of unique, excellent footage. much of it of highly famous people like bush senior, clinton, larry king, al gore, etc not aware of themselves being recorded. strongly recommended to all, even those aware of the issue beforehand .
seems to me if you know your tech you can use a converter box to do anything u chose. you can even activate your dvr without paying for it; download movied from your dvr to your computer; and probably can go into all feeds running on air. just takes the knowledge to do this. its just a converter box not a space ship .
not! with a converter boxs, . there all programs channels, you can, t get this dish sty anymore. this is wy. some people don, t want you to see this .
pretty interesting. especially when you consider that this dish system isn' t used anymore. they all come with subscription services and preprogrammed converter boxes now .
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a documentary about the 1992 u. s. presidential election based on pirated satellite feeds .
i' m just happy larry king doesn' t come off too bad here & pat robertson is confirmed as always to be a piece of shit .
shamefully obscure, but essential. it didn' t receive any votes on the sight and sound documentary poll, but i see it gaining a following within the next decade or so .
slightly informative documentary; shows just how bullshit politics and media coverage is. everything biased, and whatever little truth there is, it is purposefully selected to support the broadcasters party. felt incomplete, though; this needs to be followed by a sequel .
i wonder if a movie like this is technically achievable today - if the pre - air feeds are still available in our digital era. i suppose they still exist in some form; i recall watching the first airstrikes of the iraq war on cnn' s syndicate feed .
anyhow, it was kind of fun to see all of these politicians playing the same games we play today, but with players we haven' t seen in a while. i' m sure that' s not the right take - away here .
revels in revealing the obvious: that politicians wear makeup, that they’re awkward when off script and say stupid things when they think no one’s watching. still, useful as a reminder of the theatrical nature of political performance, and especially as an early document of the cable news machine’s insistent war on reality. this gets hinted at most prominently with the rodney king / gulf war connection, the growth of us vs. them documentation techniques pushing the expansion of the modern other, using the medium to close people out rather than broaden our understanding. would love to see a movie compiled solely from footage of larry king’s painful off - air guest repartee.
spin is a 1995 documentary film by brian springer composed of raw satellite feeds featuring politicians ' pre-appearance planning . it covers , not only the presidential election , but also the 1992 los angeles riots as well as the operation rescue abortion protests . using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard , springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s . pat robertson banters about " homos , " al gore learns how to avoid abortion questions , george h. w. bush talks to larry king about halcion — all presuming they are off camera . composed of 100 % unauthorized satellite footage , spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality . the film also documents behind the scenes footage of larry agran who unsuccessfully sought the democratic party nomination for president . agran was generally ignored by the media during his candidacy , a topic covered in the documentary . the media did not report his polling numbers even as he met or exceeded the support of other candidates such as jerry brown . party officials excluded him from most debates on various grounds , even having him arrested when he interrupted to ask to participate . when he managed to join the other candidates in any forum , his ideas went unreported . spin is a followup of the 1992 film feed ; for which springer provided much of the raw satellite footage . 
spin is a 1995 documentary film by brian springer composed of raw satellite feeds featuring politicians' pre-appearance planning. it covers, not only the presidential election, but also the 1992 los angeles riots as well as the operation rescue abortion protests. using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. pat robertson banters about " homos, " al gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, george h. w. bush talks to larry king about halcion — all presuming they are off camera. composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality. the film also documents behind the scenes footage of larry agran who unsuccessfully sought the democratic party nomination for president. agran was generally ignored by the media during his candidacy, a topic covered in the documentary. the media did not report his polling numbers even as he met or exceeded the support of other candidates such as jerry brown. party officials excluded him from most debates on various grounds, even having him arrested when he interrupted to ask to participate. when he managed to join the other candidates in any forum, his ideas went unreported. spin is a followup of the 1992 film feed; for which springer provided much of the raw satellite footage.
spin is a 1995 documentary film by brian springer composed of raw satellite feeds featuring politicians' pre-appearance planning. it covers, not only the presidential election, but also the 1992 los angeles riots as well as the operation rescue abortion protests. using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. pat robertson banters about " homos, " al gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, george h. w. bush talks to larry king about halcion — all presuming they are off camera. composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality. the film also documents behind the scenes footage of larry agran who unsuccessfully sought the democratic party nomination for president. agran was generally ignored by the media during his candidacy, a topic covered in the documentary. the media did not report his polling numbers even as he met or exceeded the support of other candidates such as jerry brown. party officials excluded him from most debates on various grounds, even having him arrested when he interrupted to ask to participate. when he managed to join the other candidates in any forum, his ideas went unreported. spin is a followup of the 1992 film feed; for which springer provided much of the raw satellite footage.