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Democracy on deadline : the global struggle for an independent press / directed by Calvin Skaggs ; produced by Jed Rothstein, Calvin Skaggs ; a co-production of Lumiere Productions and Thirteen/WNET New York ; produced in association with the Independent Television Service.
Annenberg Circulation Desk PN4736 .D45 2006
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalism--Social aspects.
- Journalism.
- Journalism--Political aspects.
- Press and politics.
- Freedom of the press.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Global struggle for an independent press
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 2006.
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD; NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- This documentary profiles journalists in the U.S. and throughout the world as they struggle with government censorship, commercial pressures, and dangerous conditions in covering international events.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Deborah Amos.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Tom Hurwitz; edited by Jay Freund, Cindy Kaplan Rooney.
- Notes:
- Originally broadcast in 2006 as a segment of the documentary television program Independent Lens, by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- OCLC:
- 76788133
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