Framing an execution ABC News & the case of Mumia Abu Jamal / [ videorecording] :
Title on cover: Framing an execution : the media & Mumia Abu Jamal [videorecording] ABC News and the case of Mumia Abu Jamal [ videorecording]
Media Education Foundation ; director, Sut Jhally ; producers, Sut Jhally, Tom Gardner
- [Northampton, Mass.] : Media Education Foundation, 2001
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (69 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
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Camera, Robbie Leppzer, Kelly Garner ; editors, Sut Jhally, Kelly Garner ; music, Thom Monahan Camera, Robbie Leppzer, Kelly Garner ; editors, Sut Jhally, Kelly Garner ; music, Thom Monahan
Narrator: Danny Glover Features: Mike Farrell, Angela Davis, Janine Jackson, Tom Gardner, Leonard Weinglass, John Bracey
In the 1990's, Mumia Abu-Jamal, an African American journalist on death row, became a symbol of the inequities in the United States judicial system. This film examines how ABC reporter Sam Donaldson's framing of Abu-Jamal's case stands up to the available facts and how it measures up to basic journalistic standards of fairness, balance, and accuracy