Media Bits and Bytes – August 19, 2025
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Tech and politics
Tech and politics
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Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Makes Awful Documentaries Fawning Over the Establishment
Jacobin
For two decades, Alexandra Pelosi, Nancy’s daughter, has made award-winning, godawful films about America’s political class. Pelosi in the House, a dull documentary about her mother and January 6, proves she is the auteur the liberal establishment deserves.
Julia Reichert, Oscar-Winning Godmother of Documentaries, Dies
WYSO
Her films include three Academy Award nominees: "Union Maids," "Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists" (with Jim Klein) and "The Last Truck: Closing of A GM Plant" (with Steven Bognar).
Friday Nite Videos | September 30, 2022
Portside
"Fuck the Election. Let's Get Right to the Violence." 'Hillbilly Elegy' Republican J.D. Vance Exposed. Ladykiller | Official Trailer. 'Putin Is a Fool': Russian Soldiers Phoning Home. How Climate Change Makes Hurricanes Worse.
"Fuck the Election. Let's Get Right to the Violence."
The documentary filmmakers who followed Roger Stone for three years share some of the footage revealing how the 'stop the steal' campaign would work months before the election.
film
A Crop of New Documentaries Refuses to Erase the Past
Vox
Films from Tantura to Descendant challenge the powerful. But it’s still up to us to witness the truth. The past can’t be changed. But if we won’t tell the truth about it, we can’t learn from it. We can’t even understand ourselves.
Media Bits and Bytes - December 28, 2021
Portside
2021: Some bests and worsts in the media world
Media Bits and Bytes - July 27, 2021
Portside
Will Pegasus spyware take surveillance to a new level? Also the big comics rip-off, Forbes predicts next year's social media, and more
DA Pennebaker: Inventor of the Modern Documentary
The Guardian
Pennebaker created numerous ground-breaking idiosyncratic documentary films including Dont Look Back, about Bob Dylan’s 1965 UK tour
The Advocates | Documentary
Profiles of three advocates for the homeless in Los Angeles. In select theaters now.
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