*Today, tomorrow, whenever… Media Burn needs your support all the time! Dear Friend of Media Burn: Happy new year! 2014… a milestone year for the Media Burn Independent Video Archive. Ten years ago, all we had was a storefront full of videotapes and the knowledge that they were incredibly important and deteriorating quickly. Since then we have restored, permanently saved, and made freely available more than 2,500 historically significant videotapes, and they have been […]
This video contains footage gathered for the television program “Watch It.” Some of this footage was also gathered for the television show “Wired In,” which never made it on the air. In this video, we watch as broadcast journalist Anne Johnsos, along with a video crew, visits a technology convention in Chicago to demo a new product called “Face It.”
Dear Friend of Media Burn: We are writing to you today because we know you share our enthusiasm for preserving and distributing one of the most important collections of historical documentaries anywhere, and we need you to make a tax-deductible contribution now: http://mediaburn.org/donate/ In 2014, we will be celebrating ten years of mediaburn.org. Our online collection of freely-accessible documentary videos now exceeds 2500, which have been viewed more than 10 million times—a remarkable achievement! So as 2013 comes to a […]
![[Ed Vrdolyak write-in Republican mayoral campaign 1989]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653938611_640-228x160.jpg)
Reports on Ed Vrdolyak’s last minute write-in campaign in the Republican primary for mayor of Chicago: 2/28, 3/1, 3/2, and 3/3/1989.
![[Chicago’s “spin doctors”]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653938272_640-228x160.jpg)
As the 1989 mayoral election approaches in Chicago, this segment takes a look at the political consultants or “spin doctors,” who influence local campaigns, including ? Zimmerman, Don Rose, and David Axelrod.
![[Luis Gutierrez endorses Richard M. Daley over Eugene Sawyer]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653938240_640-228x160.jpg)
Ald. Luis Gutierrez endorses Richard M. Daley over incumbent Eugene Sawyer in Chicago’s 1989 mayoral race.
![[Chicago Republican mayoral candidate history]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653938233_640-228x160.jpg)
An overview of previous challenges the GOP has mounted against the Chicago Democratic “Machine” in mayoral races.
![[Jesse Jackson post presidential campaign 1988]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/651870847_640-228x160.jpg)
Reports between 6/5/1988 and 9/5/1988 on the impact of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign, the subsequent campaign to be selected as Michael Dukakis’s running mate, and Jackson’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta.