The IFC Media Project Episodes	Season 1
Back To Pazsaz Entertainment Network's The IFC Media Project Page News Fixations And Taboos Examines specific media obsessions as well as off-limit topics in news reporting. The first segment follows a media consultant who brokers the stories of abducted children to the newsmedia. The episode also looks at how the pro-Israel lobby influences the narrative in press coverage of Israel and US-Israel relations. The Frontlines Of Journalism Follows Iraqi war photo-journalist Ben Lowy as he captures the conflict, people, occupation and reconstruction of this war-torn country. The feature piece looks at how the Bush administration used propaganda in the form of the embed program and the military analyst program to sell the war to the American people through the aid of the media. Dumbing It Down Details a behavioral experiment conducted by a Boston neuroscientist that looks at the mental and emotional effects of pundit-driven news. The feature piece uses a story about Big Pharma as an entry into understanding why we don't react to the news the way we used to. Unreliable Sources Critiques the press coverage of the looming economic crisis on Wall Street. The feature piece looks at how New York's three major daily papers failed to critically cover the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, and is a case study in how big business controls the news. The Anatomy Of A Story Follows a Spanish language reporter from El Diario La Prensa as she criss-crosses the country on a Greyhound bus seeking out Latino stories. The feature piece looks at how the narrative of the drug war has been played and replayed in the press. The Future Of News Involves a post election stunt, which will look at issues surrounding news and information on the Internet. Another installment of "The Media Encyclopedia," an animated "News Junkie," a video essay on George Saunders' book The Braindead Megaphone, and a feature interview with a well-known journalist will be included in this episode.
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