The IFC Media Project

Examines media obsessions as well as off-limit topics in news reporting. The episode takes a closer look at the influences of the Pro-Israel lobby on US press coverage and follows a media consultant who brokers stories of abducted children into mainstream news.

The episode follows Iraqi photo-journalist Ben Lawi as he captures the US-Iraqi conflict, the people of Iraq, and reconstruction. It also examines the Bush administrations propaganda efforts which helped to sell the war to America through the assistance of the media. Featured interview with Valerie Plame.

Features an experiment by a neuroscientist that looks at the psychological effects of screaming, pundit-driven news. After exploring a story about big pharmaceutical companies, a closer look is taken on how overwhelming and paralyzing the news can be. Featured interview with Dan Rather.

The episode first critiques media and press coverage of the economic crisis. Features a story about the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn and how New York's three major daily papers failed to cover it critically. Featured interview with The Yes Men.

The episode follows Carmen, a reporter for the Latin El Diario La Prensa, as she crosses the country on a Greyhound bus searching for Latin stories. Features a breakdown of how the media covers the same old story about the war on drugs, and how it's perpetuated by the US Government and unquestioned by the mainstream media.

Features a stunt that predicts an idyllic Utopian press, then muses about the future of news and how journalism must adapt to ubiquitous media. Features an interview with Arianna Huffington.