The Fourth Estate

Overview

Produced in the UK on a zero-budget, the filmmakers spent two years contacting and interviewing journalists, organisers and critics of the corrupt industrial practices highlighted by, but not limited to, the Leveson Inquiry in 2011. While the phone hacking scandal illuminated the depth and breadth of the cavalier flouting of legality and integrity in British journalism, there are larger implications and connections to ideology, entertainment, and political economy at work in this crisis. The Fourth Estate is the result of an examination of these connections at work.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 9, 2015

Original language

English

Director

Lee Salter

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt4506872