Breaking News: The Collision of Journalism and Consumerism in a Democracy

Breaking News: The Collision of Journalism and Consumerism in a Democracy

🎞️ Movie 56 min --
2009

In 2004, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens protested the outcome of their presidential elections. In the dead of winter, people lined the streets in protest. Universities shut down; opening their doors instead to political debate. After nearly six weeks of social unrest, the election results were overturned and Victor Yushchenko was ushered in promising a free press, capitalistic reforms and 'democracy'. Comparing Ukraine to the U.S., media experts around the world explore how the concepts of a free press work in concert and contrast with the consumerism in modern democracies - forcing the audience, regardless of nationality, to ask the difficulty questions: What is a free press? What is a democracy? And what, if anything, does one have to do with the other?

Cast

Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite
Self
Self - Anchor and Managing Editor: CBS Evening News 1962-1981
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Ruslan Deynychenko
Self
Self - Editor: Voice of America, Ukrainian Service
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Richard DeHove
Composer
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Mombus
Composer
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Adam Brawerman
Cinematographer
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Ruslan Deynychenko
Cinematographer
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Casey Hayward
Cinematographer