There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

This is a must see movie for all citizens of the world - if we hope to reclaim our liberty we must learn how the message is being filtered and controlled. For the first step begins with the realization the message is being controlled.Anyone who values their freedom and liberty should watch this movie and share it with as many people as possible. This movie is extremely well done, with great wonderful film editing, plus the content is easy to follow and understand. And of course the Orwellian analogy is dead on accurate.Excellent film. Kudos to all involved but especially to Director/Writer Robert Kane Pappas. Thank you for your courage and your patriotism.

There are some other great comments about this film, so I'll insteadtry to give out some detail. The film is done in a calm, non-ranting,informative manner primarily via interviews with journalists. Manypoints about the corporate domination of the corporate mass media arebrought out well; the citing of GE Inc.'s top management interferingwith NBC news is one case in point. The portrayal of the mediaindustry itself as a political "special interest" similar to thetobacco lobby or other traditional special interest is both insightfuland strong. The film also does an adequate job of painting the changein "ethics" of government officials over the years, and gives a fewcitations to support its point. If there is a knock, it's that the film covers a vast amount of pointsand therefore cannot go in depth unless you want to watch a ninety-hourdocumentary. This is not a big knock -- it seems that one goal of thefilm is to try to tie many disparate issues and trends together topaint the big picture, which is something our regular mass media simplydoes not do. To me, two points are worth special mention and applause. (1) the filmmentions the original 1980 "October Surprise" and while it does not goin depth, it does flush out the basics and gives a reference to thebook by Carter's Nat'l Security Adviser ("October Surprise"), which onecan use to read for more information. Still, it would have been niceto mention Jimmy Carter's quote about the October Surprise or the factthat the former Iranian president has publicly said the OctoberSurprise did indeed happen while he was president. (2) Despite it notbeing a focus of the film, the film brings out the class gap (aka thegrowing gap between the rich and poor) and issues of Americans workinglong hours. This is done in a way related to media self-censorship butI'm always surprised when this issue rears its head -- simply becausereporting about it is so very rare in the mainstream press. The filmgives a few stats but its message that the poor are poorer now than acouple of decades ago and the rich are much, much richer comes throughwell; it notes the current gov'ts solution to this problem is a tax cutfor the rich stands out starkly in its plain-face absurdity. Whilethere was a few of those conventional-wisdom-turned-upside-down momentsin the film, that one stood out. Overall, like the other reviewers, I highly recommend the film. Whileit's not done in a Michael Moore-like funny manner, the materialpresented is on the money, is not preachy and is easily followed, andthe film runs along coherently in an easy to watch pace. In some ways,it's scary, depressing stuff; in other ways, it's invigorating becauseit illustrates the depth of what's happening to our republic and paintsa picture of just how much work we've got to do to return our gov't tosome semblance of rule by/for the people.

This film got me so steamed, confirming all of my instincts about the bias in the media, I now want to quit my job and go work for Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. It tells the truth (finally) about the corporate take-over and control of citizens' MINDS through relentless right-wing punditry. We are living in a society in which we can be manipulated so easily by headlines and "news alerts"... and the way it happens is by planting the seeds of fear in all of us. War, ideally a far away war with no purpose other than to further line the pockets of the elite, is a perfect scare tactic. We are all Orwell's "Winston." Common Cause and FAIR and other media/election watchdog agencies are heroes.

I've only begun watching documentary films like this recently due in large part to the success of Michael Moore's films. This film is right up there with Moore's films in quality, in thought provoking content, and in sad truth. This is the kind of film that it terrifies me to see but I'm glad that I saw it. I remember when I read 1984 in high school and I thought it was great that there was literature like that so that the kind of events that take place in 1984 could never happen in real life. Orwell would be rolling in his grave because those kind of events are happening now, and this movie makes is frighteningly, frighteningly obvious. I don't care if you consider yourself Repbulican, Democrat or Independent, if you have any care for truth watch this film. The news will never look the same again.