A three part documentary mini-series which examines how the Ethiopian famine was portrayed on Western Television, analyses the promotion of the Live Aid event, and looks at the media coverage of hunger in America.
A three part documentary mini-series which examines how the media handled both the 1984 African famine and hunger in America, with interviews with journalists, corporate sponsors and charity workers, plus extracts from contemporaneous news footage and promotional ads for the mega fund-raising events.