In this show Patrick Esmond-White, a producer for the Public Interest Video Network, examines how the media’s manipulation has deflated the power and influence of mass demonstrations. Filmed in Washington DC in front of the Lincoln Memorial, in the same spot that hosted one of most influential and inspiring mass demonstrations for peace and civil rights in 1963, Esmond-White compares the march of ‘63 to marches of the present. The power of the demonstration as a political and social weapon has been defused through police regulation and media’s portrayal the events. Journalist frame demonstrations in a way that simplifies or leaves out the issues they’re based on and portray demonstrators as unmotivated or unfocused. With the issues unspoken and the participants pacified, this media domestication creates an inaccurate and un-empowered viewpoint of American history and activism. As the issues remain the same as they were decades ago, their echo resounds softer and softer against the restraints of media manipulation and the defense against oppression and injustices falls short of political and social reform.