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Oil Katrina and The Big Spin (2 hours)
This special focuses on the two landmark events of President Bush’s second term -  Hurricane Katrina and the continuing war in Iraq. This program intends to cut through the confusion and help you make up your own mind about the critical events over the past few years, what’s real and what’s the spin. 

In this program, we'll see Orwell Rolls In His Grave, a film that moves us through a troubling list of questions and news stories that go unanswered and unreported in the mainstream media. Examining elections, the media and the spin, Robert Kane Pappas takes us beneath the surface of words into their political meaning where lies pass as truth.  By deconstructing the use of language handed down from the administration to the media we’ll see how certain messages infiltrate our shared belief system.

And joining us is linguist, Geoffrey Nunberg, who’s new book, “Talking Right,” examines how the Right has managed to label Liberals as Tax Raising, Latte Drinking, Sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood Loving freaks. 

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Oil, Katrina and The Big Spin Related Websites:
The Center for Public Integrity
Center for Digital Democracy
Orwell Rolls in His Grave