Echo Chamber Project

The Echo Chamber Project is an open source, investigative documentary that explores news coverage in the United States of "how the television news media became an uncritical echo chamber to the Executive Branch leading up to the war in Iraq." By using collaborative editing and production techniques for producing this film, the project aims to explore ways to incorporate a broader range of voices and perspectives into the mainstream media. To create The Echo Chamber documentary 45 established authorities of journalism and politics were interviewed about the strengths and weakness of the press coverage.

The Echo Chamber Project website aims to help combine the principles of documentary filmmaking without narration, investigative reporting, open source content development, and the integration of fact-based objective reporting with partisan and non-partisan intersubjective perspectives. An ongoing blog about the project has been developed to help co-ordinate the collaborative post-production process, and comment on press issues in the time period between August 26 2002 and March 19 2003. The website contains interviews to download, transcripts, and opportunities to volunteer.

Individuals are invited to review over 50 hours of information and knowledge collected so far, and help with editing sound bite sequences - as well as gathering a larger context for the footage by people becoming familiar with material and then sharing what it means to them.

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