Overview
Pirated satellite feeds revealing U.S. media personalities’ contempt for their viewers come full circle in Spin. TV out-takes appropriated from network satellite feeds unravel the tightly-spun fabric of television—a system that silences public debate and enforces the exclusion of anyone outside the pack of journalists, politicians, spin doctors, and televangelists who manufacture the news. Spin moves through the L.A. riots and the floating TV talk-show called the 1992 U.S. presidential election.
Director and cast
- Brian Springer as Self
- George H. W. Bush as Self (archive footage)
- Bill Clinton as Self (archive footage)
- Al Gore as Self (archive footage)
- Larry King as Self (archive footage)
- Larry Agran as Self (archive footage)
- Jim Bakker as Self (archive footage)
- Bill Beutel as Self (archive footage)
- Hillary Clinton as Self (archive footage)
- Barbara Bush as Self (archive footage)
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