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Robert Kane Pappas|Tom Blackburn}} Charles Lewis (journalist)>Robert W. McChesney>Mark Crispin MillerBernie Sanders>Danny Schechter}}| narrator = Eric WoodExtra Virgin Mary|Chris Jagich}}J. Alan Hostetter|Robert Kane Pappas}}| editing = Robert Kane Pappas| studio = Sag Harbor-Basement PicturesSag Harbor-Basement Pictures (2005)Slamdance Film Festival>Slamdance (2011)}}200323Hamptons International Film Festival>East Hampton Film Festival}}{{film date7New York City}}{{film date4BAFICI, Argentina}}| runtime = 84 minutes| country = United States| language = English| budget = | gross = }}Orwell Rolls in His Grave is a 2003 American documentary film directed by Robert Kane Pappas and written by Pappas and Tom Blackburn.WEB, staff, Orwell Rolls In His Grave,weblink KCET, July 5, 2015, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150706100855weblink">weblink July 6, 2015,

Documentary topic

The film covered topics including the Telecommunications Act of 1996, concentration of media ownership, political corruption, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the controversy over the US presidential election of 2000 (particularly in Florida with Bush v. Gore), and the Carter vs. Reagan 1980 October Surprise theory.NEWS, Ward, Mike, Orwell Rolls in His Grave (2003),weblink July 5, 2015, Pop Matters, August 27, 2004,

Participants

• Charles Lewis, Founder of the Center for Public Integrity
• Robert McChesney, Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Mark Crispin Miller, Author, Professor at New York University
• Bernie Sanders, Congressman from Vermont
• Danny Schechter, Author and Media Critic
• Vincent Bugliosi, Attorney and Author
• Jeff Cohen, Founder of FAIR
• Dennis Kucinich, former Congressman
• Mark Lloyd, Visiting Professor at M.I.T.
• Michael Moore, Journalist and Activist
• John Nichols, Journalist and Activist
• Greg Palast, Journalist and Author
• Helen Thomas, Journalist and member of White House press corps

Screenings

The film has aired in October 2004, on Free Speech TV, a non-profit TV station based in Denver, Colorado and Link TV.WEB, Touchdown (admin), Orwell Rolls in his Grave (Free Speech TV) showtimes,weblink October 25, 2004, Democratic Underground, July 5, 2015,

Reception

In 2004, Washington Post staff writer Desson Thomson found the documentary to feel like a do-over of the views and arguments in Fahrenheit 9/11, The Corporation and (Outfoxed|Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism).WEB,weblink 'Orwell': Big, Boring Brother, Desson Thomson, July 30, 2004, September 27, 2018,

See also

• (Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media)
• Spin
• The medium is the message
• Politico-media complex
• Propaganda model
• Carter vs. Reagan 1980 "October Surprise"

References

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External links

• {{Official websiteweblink}}
• {{IMDb title|0410407}}
• {{Rotten Tomatoes|orwell_rolls_in_his_grave|Orwell Rolls in His Grave}}
• {{YouTube|rOygpfEl7nE|Orwell Rolls In His Grave}}