By Jeremy Lucas | Documentary, Investigation
If you’re wondering where I’ve been the past few months, the answer is two-fold. First off, I’ve been living the life of a normal American who works a full-time minimum wage job at a popular fast-food chain. Secondly, I’ve been involved in the making of a documentary. Sure, it was basically made as a glorified class
Tags: college, education
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By Jeremy Lucas | Documentary, Investigation
As a medium, film has always given its viewer and maker the power to find truths about humanity by recording it and distributing it for an interested audience. But for the first few decades of its existence, these truths were contained in a fictional version of life. It wasn’t until the 1920s when people like
Tags: Cinéma vérité, documentery, education, errol morris, everest, facts, film, filmmaking, ken burns, life, newsreel, observation, thin blue line, truth
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By Jeremy Lucas | Business, Documentary, Editorial
One of the great debates that “The Love of Money” and “Too Big To Fail” bring up is whether or not bailing out the banks was a good idea, or a bad idea. Would the economy have been better served if Lehman Brothers had been saved, or was it a right decision to let the
Tags: bailout, banks, deregulation, economy, hank paulson, henry paulson, jon stewart, lehman brothers, mortgages, recession, regulation, Remembering The Great Recession While Still Living In It, risk, subprime, subprime mortgages, tarp, too big to fail, wall street
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By Jeremy Lucas | Documentary, Reviews
After the war in Iraq, the last thing people want to know about, or even care about is the War in Afghanistan. Still, it’s going on as we speak, and our men and women are dying there. Restrepo provides an interesting prospective not only on the War in Afghanistan, but also war in general, and
Tags: Afghanistan, documentery, Restrepo, sebastian junger, soldiers, tim hetherington, war, war in Afghanistan
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By Jeremy Lucas | Documentary, Media, TV
Like I said in a previous piece, Frontline is actually a good program and consistently one of the best investigative journalism programs on today. NBC’s Dateline focuses on True Crime more than anything these days (Blame Ann Curry, as she ruined the program). CBS’s 60 Minutes tackles a lot of great topics that nobody else
Tags: airline industry, airlines, business, college, controversy, coroner, death, economy, education, faa, frontline, health, investigation, investigative journalism, journalism, justice, law, lowell bergman, media, norfolk four, outsourcing, parenting, pbs, politicians, regional airline, vaccines
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