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(More customer reviews)As telling a scene as any I've watched in a documentary happens in the 2010 film PLUNDER: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME, where demonstrators marching against Wall Street corruption refuse to talk to a C.N.B.C. television news reporter. You'd expect it to be the criminal bankers avoiding journalists, not their subprime mortgage scam victims. Yet the people seeking justice do not want to talk to C.N.B.C. and other corporate media.
Journalist-director Danny Schechter's PLUNDER: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME presents good reason for the silence of the financially slaughtered lambs. Showing television news clips from the years leading up to 2008 collapse, we see C.N.B.C. and other such "news" providers only interview individuals warning of the crisis when alongside financial services flacks who talk over them, drowning out the truth. To those who lost their homes in the subprime mortgage bait-and-switch, corporate news may as well be partners with the lenders who took advantage of them. No wonder Schechter tells that C.N.B.C. reporter, "They hate you."
That scene typifies the tone of PLUNDER: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME, which reports what's happened from the point of view of those who matter, average Americans. Danny Schechter takes it to the streets in a blow-by-blow recount of the victimization of millions of Americans that is the second Great Depression. The facts need no point-counterpoint; the wealthy took the money and ran.
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A hard-hitting investigative film by Danny Schechter. The “News Dissector” explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed. To tell this story Schechter speaks with bankers involved in these activities, respected economists, insider experts, top journalists including Paul Krugman, and even a convicted white-collar criminal, Sam Antar, who blows the whistle on intentionally dishonest practices.
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