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Last spring’s Denver Post editorial page revolt against its hedge-fund owner, which garnered national headlines and became known in media circles as the Denver Rebellion, led an intriguing figure to trek to Colorado from California.
Rick Goldsmith, a well-known documentary filmmaker who had already produced two Academy-Award-nominated films about journalism, embarked on a new project: Stripped for Parts: American Journalism at the Crossroads. And while the film, which is still in production, has a national focus, “it was definitely the Denver Rebellion that instigated this,” Goldsmith says.
For more than a year, he and a film crew have been in and out of Colorado interviewing subjects. Their cameras have been rolling at public events about the news. “We do cover the Denver Rebellion,” he told me this week about the documentary. “We cover the fight against [Post owner] Alden Global Capital, and it broadens out into the crisis in journalism— and local journalism specifically — today that’s happening all around the country.”
Our nation’s local news crisis is certainly ripe for documentary treatment, and as a fan of Goldsmith’s film, The Most Dangerous Man in America, about Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, I can’t wait to see the final product. In the meantime, you can now watch the trailer for Stripped for Parts ??
Rick Goldsmith, a well-known documentary filmmaker who had already produced two Academy-Award-nominated films about journalism, embarked on a new project: Stripped for Parts: American Journalism at the Crossroads. And while the film, which is still in production, has a national focus, “it was definitely the Denver Rebellion that instigated this,” Goldsmith says.
For more than a year, he and a film crew have been in and out of Colorado interviewing subjects. Their cameras have been rolling at public events about the news. “We do cover the Denver Rebellion,” he told me this week about the documentary. “We cover the fight against [Post owner] Alden Global Capital, and it broadens out into the crisis in journalism— and local journalism specifically — today that’s happening all around the country.”
Our nation’s local news crisis is certainly ripe for documentary treatment, and as a fan of Goldsmith’s film, The Most Dangerous Man in America, about Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, I can’t wait to see the final product. In the meantime, you can now watch the trailer for Stripped for Parts ??