The Made-for-TV Election 1980 (1986) Segment V

themadefortvelection@gmail.com. "The Shah Blunder, Brown Funnies, Iowa Casting Call, Bush's Big Mo." Hollywood star and activist Martin Sheen shows how broadcast TV networks create winners and losers in US presidential elections by typecasting the candidates in a drama of their own making in this long-suppressed documentary feature about the 1980 Presidential Election Campaign when Ronald Reagan defeated President Jimmy Carter. Watch how network news shows use polls, gaffes, flip-flops, stereotypes, and show business values to pump the ratings and distract you from what you need to know to be an informed citizen and understand what's really happening in America. The program dissects CBS, NBC and ABC News coverage and reveals TV's "hidden hand" in changing the outcome of this landmark election, exposing the myth of the Reagan Revolution and the made-for-TV "conservative tide" that so radically changed America's course. A must for news and politics junkies everywhere and all Americans interested in the integrity of the fundamental act of citizenship--voting for President of the United States. A generation ago, one film dared to tell the truth. Now it's your turn. Martin Sheen (host) Jimmy Carter (Incumbent president) Ronald Reagan (Republican challenger) Ted Kennedy (Democratic challenger) John Anderson (Independent challenger) Walter Cronkite (CBS News "The Most Trusted Man in America") plus and the entire cast of presidential candidates, network news stars, pundits and the "pulse of the people" public opinion polls. Produced, directed, written and edited by William Brandon Shanley. Gerald J. Keane, co-producer, writer. Alvin H. Goldstein, executive producer. Joe Rothstein, studio director. Harry Miles Muheim, script consultant. Running time: 102 minutes. A Production of News Analysis Associates in association with Capitol Video Communications. Copyrights 1986-2008 - All Rights Reserved.