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The Made-for-TV Election ()
Directed by Joe Rothstein
Documentary · 1h 42m
Hollywood star and activist Martin Sheen shows how broadcast TV networks create winners and losers in US presidential elections by typecasting the candidates in a drama of their own making in this long-suppressed and sabotaged documentary about the 1980 Presidential Election Campaign when former Governor Ronald Reagan defeated President Jimmy Carter. Watch how network news shows use polls, gaffes, flip-flops, stereotypes, and show business values to pump the ratings and misdirect you from what you need to know to be an informed citizen and understand what's really happening in America. The program dissects network coverage and reveals TV's "hidden hand" in changing the outcome of the most important election since 1968, exposing the myth of the Reagan Revolution and the made-for-TV "conservative tide" that so tragically changed America's course.
Cast
Martin Sheen
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Crew
- Director
- Joe Rothstein
- Writer
- Gerald J. Keane
- Producer
- William Brandon Shanley
Details
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Production
- News Analysis Associates, Capitol Video Communications