By Dennis Harvey
Rick Goldsmith’s Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink offers a sobering overview of how “vulture capitalism” has reduced US news media—which had already been embattled by the internet and other factors for years—to a rapidly-shrinking, monopolistic shell of itself. It methodically explains how the decimation of independent local newspapers, the increasing dominance of corporate owners with no real stake in reportorial integrity, et al. led to…well, you know what, with disinformation, paranoia and propaganda turning voters against their own best interests. We wrote more extensively about the film when it played the United Nations Film Fest last year. It plays Oakland’s New Parkway next Tues/19 only, with the Berkeley-based director in person.
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STRIPPED FOR PARTS 