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Thanks for the recommendation

This one's pretty good: https://youtu.be/VCUIlV-AKY4




Thanks. I haven't seen it, but this looks like it might be the full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlJkgQZb0VU

Here's the part where the documentary explains how he got all the behind-the-scenes footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlJkgQZb0VU&t=3m58s. TLDR - raw video from remote studios were first beamed via satellite to the Network's HQ for editing and "packaging". But back in those days, people with satellite boxes could intercept and view the raw pre-packaged feeds.


You should also be able to find it on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/SPINSpringer1995


In fact it looks like the film was uploaded to IA by Brian Springer (the filmmaker) himself, along with many of the source tapes:

https://archive.org/details/@brnspring


There's a slightly longer version (1hr15 to credits) here. I'm not sure what the differences are. https://mediaburn.org/video/spin/


While the conspiracy theorists seem to love that one, I think he meant "serve" as in "serve on your cabinet".


Obviously... What else do the conspirationists think it mean?


Likely that Ted Turner was offering to have CNN serve as a propaganda machine for the Clinton Administration or the Democratic Party at large, due to their common political sympathies.




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