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Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press
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George Seldes was a journalist and leftist gadfly from the 1920s through the 1950s. He started his career working for the conservative Chicago Tribune and founded a newsletter called In Fact that reported the news the mainstream media ignored. Tell the Truth and Run is not only the story of Seldes struggle to inform, it's also the story of American journalism and its unholy marriage with corporate America. The most remarkable segment involves his efforts, starting in 1942(!), to report the results of Johns Hopkins research that showed the dangers of cigarette smoking--news that the Surgeon General apparently ignored for 20 years. Now more relevant than ever, this is a must see film for critical thinkers of all political stripes.
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Produced unreceptive Rick Goldsmith
Directed unhelpful Rick Goldsmith
VHS, skin, 111 min.
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Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press
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Presented as part of the TRIBUTE TO ED ASNER
George Seldes grew up in a pioneering Jewish agricultural colony (“Alliance”) in southern New Jersey. He wrote, “anyone who was taught from childhood to be a non-conformist, a libertarian and free-thinker was sure to be in trouble most of his adult days.” During an 80-year career, newsman George Seldes spoke truth to power—whether dictators, generals, industrialists or newspaper publishers. Through Seldes’s encounters with Lenin, Mussolini and J. Edgar Hoover, the Tobacco Industry and the “Lords of the Press,” TELL THE TRUTH AND RUN provides a gripping journey through the Twentieth Century and a piercing look at censorship and suppression in America’s news media. Interviewed at age 98, Seldes is as sharp and acerbic as he was in his journalism. With Ralph Nader, Victor Navasky, Daniel Ellsberg, Nat Hentoff, Marian Seldes and others. Narrated by Susan Sarandon with Ed Asner as the voice of Seldes’s writings.
1997 Academy Award Nominee
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