Documentary Project Calls MSM "Echo Chamber" For Bush

[JABBS]

Documentary film-maker Kent Bye is attempting a new type of citizen journalism.

His "Echo Chamber Project" is an "investigative documentary about the how the television news media became an uncritical echo chamber to the Executive Branch leading up to the war in Iraq."

The twist: it's an "open source" project, meaning that Bye is sharing transcripts and footage from his documentary with anyone who wants to use it or remix it with other footage as they see fit.

A preliminary video of the Echo Chamber Project is available on ourmedia.org, a non-profit initiative that provides free storage space and bandwidth.

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Before devoting himself to documentary film-making, Bye worked as a radar systems engineer within the military industrial complex for 4 1/2 years. While working as an engineer, Bye produced two narrative 16mm films, and directed his first feature documentary called Handicamp.

Since then, the Maine native has worked with the Maryland Film Festival, Silverdocs Film Festival, MicroCineFest, and Johns Hopkins Film Festival as a film screener and photojournalist.
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We wish Bye good luck (and welcome him to use JABBS as a resource). If he's successful in helping give the mainstream media a kick in the pants, that would certainly be good news.

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This article first appeared at Journalists Against Bush's B.S.

[wli]

1. open-source documentary? AWESOME!