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The Hidden Persuaders
2011 · Film · 120 min
Directed by Wayne Dudley
A rock star is found dead with the police looking at an open and shut case. However, a reporter's instincts lead him into a world of corruption, murder, sex, drugs, and rock & roll.
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Absolutely, if you mean the Frontline documentary from 2004. Poignant more so today than when it 1st aired. I'll double check "Hidden Persuaders", though.
Problem is, everyone seems to be emulating the advertizers, selling what they deem to be the best X. These social networks are conditioning people to be salespeople, IMO. I am guilty, too.
You tell people here this, they agree with you, and they go right back to watching it.
I had the experience of ... "commuting" between Montreal and Texas in the early '00s ( home was in Texas ) and at that time, TV was enough different that I finally saw it. I knew it was there, but coming home, the television was beyond annoying.
And, of course, I set about finding television that wasn't that way. This means CSPAN, a handful of series in the mold of "The Sopranos" and a few documentaries now and again. Which is nice. But I have a feeling that if everybody does that, it'll collapse.
The "how" is like what Scott Adams talks about with Trump's use of Master Persuader technology. Throw in "The Hidden Persuaders" and the collected work of Marhsall Macluhan too.
Oh, and with vanishingly few exceptions, the popular Internet media are the same or in cases, worse. This site to the exception of course.