Dirty Money
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: Netflix produced a 20/20 style documentary series called Dirty Money, that spins left.
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While the show is interesting and watchable, it's completely dogmatic, one-sided, and filled with lies of omission and commission.
It reminds me of High School civics, history, social studies, all over again: though this is slightly more interesting.
Season 1[edit | edit source]
It's sort of a documentary, in the same way Joseh Goebbels made documentaries. As the Director/Producer Alex Gibney said, "Objectivity is dead. There's no such thing as objectivity. When you're making a film, a film can't be objective."
Alex's stepdad was the infamous wife-beating peace activist, president of the well-known Soviet front organization (SANE/Freeze), clergyman William Sloane Coffin.
Alex seems to have learned his balance and moderation from somewhere: as he doesn't even try to present both sides, or trust his viewers... and his shows reek of a far-left, authoritarian (posing as an anti-authoritarian) worldview (he writes for HuffPo and the Atlantic, in a "speak only the truth to power that power wants you to speak" kinda way). Thus, being an unimaginative follower of the progressive agenda, he's loved by Hollywood and the media and wins all kinds of accolades, but he is as balanced as a one-legged stool.
However, other than trying to further his biased postmodern-Marxist agenda into duping his viewers that everyone in business is bad/corrupt, the actual stories and presentation are interesting. And despite his best efforts, some truths slip through the plot holes. So while he exaggerates some information, bury's counterfactuals, and is selling you on his far-left ideology, it is well-produced/directed (he has talent), the stories move along well, you get a lot of at least one side of the truth, packed into one-hour shows, and dare I say it's very entertaining.
So if you're a skeptical person (Wikipedia:Critical_thinking critical thinker), and you take notes or research/think-through what he's leaving out, or you just like to hear what the other side of reality thinks of everything, the show is quite valuable -- and I completely recommend it.
If you're the type that believes what you were taught in school, see on CNN, MSNBC or read in the NYT without question -- then you're already programmed enough. And all this dose of confirmation bias is going to do, is enrage you more at the injustices of a corrupt/broken system, and push you that much further into the land of snowflakes, social justice, and intersectional activism.
In other words, it's fine for people emotionally over 40, and horrid for people under 30... whatever their actual physical ages are.
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🔗 External Links
- https://www.netflix.com/title/80118100
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Money_(2018_TV_series)
- www.imdb.com/title/tt7889220/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/dirty-money-review-netflix/551819/
Scott Tucker and Payday Loans
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Tucker_(racing_driver)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payday_loans_in_the_United_States
Valeant Pharmaceuticals
HSBC & Sinaloa Cartel
Maple Syrup Heist
Donald Trump
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
- https://www.netflix.com/title/80118100
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Money_(2018_TV_series)
- www.imdb.com/title/tt7889220/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/dirty-money-review-netflix/551819/
We Steal Secrets
Gibney's Documentary on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks is widely criticized by people that know more than him on the topic, and by Julian Assange and supporters.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Steal_Secrets:_The_Story_of_WikiLeaks#Criticism
- Alex Gibney responds to criticisms about "We Steal Secrets": https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/robert-manne/2013/07/01/1372650669/we-steal-secrets-response-alex-gibney