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october 1997
Citizen Vagrom's October issue, FEAR, gives new meaning to the Halloween experience.

Fear and Favor in the Newsroom
The cover story this month is an interview with the makers of the film FEAR AND FAVOR IN THE NEWSROOM, award winning producers Beth Sanders and Randy Baker.

Recently censored by National PBS, the film, narrated by Studs Terkel, presents a lucid account of how democracy is threatened when the press, which ought to be telling us how those with power are using it, is actually owned by the powerful.

The film features several case studies involving award winning journalists who saw their work compromised by a system where employees (supervising editors and producers) conform by serving the interests of their employers, conglomerate corporations. Creepsville.

This Vagrom exclusive will screen at the upcoming Media and Democracy Congress in New York in October; and a push to convince local PBS affiliates to pick up the show will also be played out on Vagrom's Information Subway netcasts.

Fear & Favor, the film, is scheduled to be satellite fed on Nov. 9th at 7:00pm by NETA (National Educational Telecommunication Association).

KCTS Program Director Jane Sheridan also makes an appearance outlining the restrictions currently faced by PBS, which has come to rely more and more on corporate sponsorship just to stay on the air.

Cassini Plutonium Roulette Probe
Also on this particularly scary edition, news about the upcoming protests of the Cassini Plutonium Roulette Probe (1 chance in 345 that all human life will be extinguished -- spooked yet?).

Liberty Beast
A nightmarish version of Sesame Street courtesy of Lev, "Liberty Beast". This labor-intensive tribute to the art of DIY media features sing-alongs like "go-to-work, make money, buy stuff", and Mary's experience waiting at the free clinic with broken puppet legs because she didn't have insurance.

Planet Street adds to the teeth-chattering fare with a look into Neo-Nazi drinking rituals in Slovenia, and Offline presents "Nocturnia" by Frank Fitzgerald.