If you were thinking of quitting social media, the upcoming Frontline film The Facebook Dilemma on PBS might just push you over the edge, judging by the ominous insights shared at a panel this afternoon at TCA summer press tour.
Roger McNamee, an early Facebook investor and venture capitalist, recalled reaching out to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg in October 2016. He had seen indications of misuse of the platform and wanted to offer his counsel. The indifferent reaction McNamee says he received shocked him and galvanized his criticism of the company’s stance. The executives viewed the malevolent use of the platform as a “public relations problem, not a business problem,” McNamee charged.
“I thought that Facebook was being manipulated by...
Roger McNamee, an early Facebook investor and venture capitalist, recalled reaching out to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg in October 2016. He had seen indications of misuse of the platform and wanted to offer his counsel. The indifferent reaction McNamee says he received shocked him and galvanized his criticism of the company’s stance. The executives viewed the malevolent use of the platform as a “public relations problem, not a business problem,” McNamee charged.
“I thought that Facebook was being manipulated by...
- 8/1/2018
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Wikileaks' Manning Curiously Missing from Greenwald's Doc About the United States Government's Attacks on Whistleblowers In 2006, after getting stonewalled in his effort to expose critical flaws in the Deepwater program (designed to modernize the Coast Guard fleet), former Lockheed Martin project manager Michael DeKort made his case in a YouTube video. Only then did the issue get noticed, leading to improvements in Coast Guard safety. Pictured above: Thomas Drake, one of the whistleblowers featured in the documentary. It also led to DeKort spending years defending himself from those trying to discredit him. Indeed, this is where Greenwald’s film cashes in on what little indignation it generates. A lone civilian is seemingly no match against deep-pocketed forces that will do anything to protect their interests, even if -- especially if -- the whistleblower’s claims are accurate. Towards the end of the film, Thomas Drake, the former Nsa senior executive...
- 4/13/2013
- by Gary Lloyd
- Alt Film Guide
Real Time with Bill Maher airs this Friday September 30 and features a new panel to chew over the news with host Bill Maher. The HBO series continues its ninth season Friday, Sept. 30 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live Et/tape-delayed Pt), exclusively on HBO, with an instant replay at 11:00 p.m. following the live presentation. Maher bounces his perspective on contemporary issues off of his guests. The show includes an opening monologue, roundtable discussions with panelists, and interviews with in-studio and satellite guests and is capped off by "New Rules." The roundtable guests this week are columnist former Mich. Gov. Jennifer Granholm, .Family Guy. creator, crooner and Comedy Central Roast host Seth MacFarlane and novelist Salman Rushdie; journalist Dana Priest and...
- 9/29/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Next Sunday, Sept.11, will mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Flight 93. Throughout the coming week, a bevy of documentaries, newscasts, movies, concerts and special editions of regular programs will recall that tragic day, honor the fallen and the heroes, and look to the future. TVLine has compiled a list of the many commemorative programs.
Sunday, Sept. 4
9/11: Heroes of the 88th Floor (TLC, 9 pm) | Chris Noth narrates this special about two construction workers, Frank De Martini and Pablo Ortiz, who saved the lives of 77 people.
ID Investigates: 9/11 Crime Scene Investigators (Investigation Discovery,...
Sunday, Sept. 4
9/11: Heroes of the 88th Floor (TLC, 9 pm) | Chris Noth narrates this special about two construction workers, Frank De Martini and Pablo Ortiz, who saved the lives of 77 people.
ID Investigates: 9/11 Crime Scene Investigators (Investigation Discovery,...
- 9/3/2011
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
"This month marks the 35th anniversary of the release of Alan J Pakula's film version of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's nonfiction book, All the President's Men," begins Marc Savlov in the Austin Chronicle. "It was one of the best of a handful of films in the crusading reporter subgenre and one that not only has withstood the test of time but also, rewatched today, provokes this thought: 'What the hell has happened to the Fourth Estate?'"
In a sidebar, Savlov notes that the film will be screening this afternoon at the Lbj Library Auditorium. Thursday sees two panel discussions, "Could the media break a story like Watergate today?," with Woodward, Bernstein, Peter Baker of the New York Times, Dana Priest of the Washington Post and Mark Miller of the Texas Tribune, and then later the same day, a discussion of the film with Woodward, Bernstein and Robert Redford.
In a sidebar, Savlov notes that the film will be screening this afternoon at the Lbj Library Auditorium. Thursday sees two panel discussions, "Could the media break a story like Watergate today?," with Woodward, Bernstein, Peter Baker of the New York Times, Dana Priest of the Washington Post and Mark Miller of the Texas Tribune, and then later the same day, a discussion of the film with Woodward, Bernstein and Robert Redford.
- 4/18/2011
- MUBI
How many of your favorite scifi stories involve spies, secret organizations, black-ops or shadowy conspiracies? When you watch genre films, how often do you encounter Top Secret groups, with hidden secrets that will blow your mind. Yeah, a lot. The funny thing is, I'm starting to think the movies underplay the amount of secrets and groups out there.
This week, Frontline goes inside The Washington Post's major two-year examination into the massive, unwieldy, top secret world the U.S. government has created in response to 9/11. Coming fall 2010 to PBS.
A major examination by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin is the subject of an upcoming Frontline documentary produced by veteran producer Michael Kirk. The Post's two-year investigation looked at the top secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001—a world that has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that few...
This week, Frontline goes inside The Washington Post's major two-year examination into the massive, unwieldy, top secret world the U.S. government has created in response to 9/11. Coming fall 2010 to PBS.
A major examination by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin is the subject of an upcoming Frontline documentary produced by veteran producer Michael Kirk. The Post's two-year investigation looked at the top secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001—a world that has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that few...
- 7/19/2010
- doorQ.com
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