New Voice for Jailing Bank Execs
from Consortium News:
New Voice for Jailing Bank Execs
May 29, 2012
In a new book, Predator Nation, Charles Ferguson (who directed the Oscar-winning film Inside Job) says banking executives implicated in the fraud that devastated the economy in 2008 should go to jail, a position applauded by Danny Schechter, who has long advocated the same.
By Danny Schechter
The circle of those of us crusading for a jail-out of banksters and not another bailout for them is widening. Our newest member is Charles Ferguson, director of the film Inside Job, who is out with a new must-read book, Predator Nation, documenting and detailing how the financial elite and its values took over our culture and country.
When I first saw Fergusons film, coming out two years after my Plunder: The Crime Of Our Time on a similar subject, I was a bit jealous because of all the support he attracted from Sony and Hollywood insiders who waged a successful Oscar campaign on its behalf.
After selling a software company, he had access to big money for a film on big money. He could afford high production values but also the kind of marketing that indy filmmakers like myself dream about.
As a PhD, former business executive and government adviser, Ferguson also had developed a keen skill for synthesizing information and creating a filmic explainer, almost like a big screen power-point presentation, that recounts how we got into this financial crisis through government deregulation and/or complicity. A member of the elite himself, he is well schooled in how to talk to his counterparts. ..............(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/29/new-voice-for-jailing-bank-execs/