The Brainwashing of My Dad (2016)

Directors

Jen Senko

Cast

Noam Chomsky

The story

As Senko tries to understand the transformation of her father from a nonpolitical Democrat to an angry Republican fanatic, she examines the forces behind the media that changed him completely: a plan by Roger Ailes, under President Richard Nixon, to create a Republican propaganda machine. The film explores the 1971 Powell Memo urging business leaders to influence institutions of public opinion, the 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine under President Ronald Reagan, and the 1996 Telecommunications Act under President Bill Clinton, which enabled media consolidation. What starts as a daughter's personal journey becomes an examination of a…

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