Adam Curtis - Richard Nixon: Paranoia and Moral Panics (2010)

Adam Curtis - Richard Nixon: Paranoia and Moral Panics (2010)

This short film uses the story of Richard Nixon’s paranoia to explore how a similar outlook has been perpetuated on the larger social scale by the new media age. Skimming through the evolution of the mainstream media via television and newspapers, this short film comments on how politics has been paralysed by a media that has taken serious threats and sensationalised them, resulting in political cynicism and disengagement, which in-turn feeds a viscous cycle of nihilism and further sensationalist politics and media.

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