The IFC Media Project
Season 3
20104 episodes
For season 3, the Media Project dropped its "magazine-style" format and focused each episode on telling 22-minute short documentaries under the tagline "4 Nights, 4 Journalists, 4 Stories." The third season follows journalists Max Blumenthal, Nir Rosen, Charlie LeDuff and Andrew Berends.
Episodes
- E1
FEAR
2010-05-24 · 30m
The episode follows Max Blumenthal as he explores the language of fear within the Tea Party Movement and how Fox News Channel and leaders of the Republican Party are using fear to meet their own political ends.
- E2
WAR
2010-05-25 · 30m
The episode explores the Obama administration's strategy for the war in Afghanistan through the lens of reconstruction. Journalist Nir Rosen travels to Kabul and Wardak Province to uncover how $51 billion have been spent.
- E3
GREED
2010-05-26 · 30m
Charlie LeDuff turns the media's fascination with the decimation of his hometown, Detroit, Michigan, inside out. Leaving his hometown to confront the power brokers in Wall Street and the United States Congress, LeDuff meets Senators, journalists and stock brokers in his hunt to discover what happened to the American dream. Featuring H. Rodgin Cohen and Matt Taibbi.
- E4
DISASTER
2010-05-27 · 30m
The episode focuses on the media's coverage of the earthquake in Haiti. Following documentary filmmaker and photographer Andrew Berends as well as Dan Rather and CNN, we see how the media mobilizes and struggles to cover their story in a disaster zone.