Blame it on the [media] hype
Nowhere is the anti-outsourcing backlash greater than in the US. Not
surprising since they can lay claim to the greatest number jobs displaced.
Outsourcing has been the topic of many an American TV shows with CNN
devoting an entire episode of its "60 Minutes" and "Lou Dobbs Tonight"
show on the offshoring issue.
But being American-produced shows, you already feel the anti-outsourcing
sentiment in them. The Internet is also breeding ground for a number of
sites that are products of disgruntled US workers.
An American filmmaker, Greg Spotts, has reportedly started work on a film
that will chronicle America's job loss to competition from low-wage
economies such as India, China and Mexico.
What makes it interesting is that it is Spotts' directorial debut. After
six months of research, he began filming last January, traveling around
the US to get soundbytes from displaced workers.
While still a work in progress, the project is already being hyped and is
scheduled to debut in theaters on Labor Day this September - a clever
attempt to drum up even more hype - even as producers are already looking
at a DVD release.
What won't be surprising is how the movie will add even more to the
current backlash, and may even be championed by a presidential candidate.
A filmmaker should be thinking of doing a film on outsourcing - only with
an etirely different flavor to it.
