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factious press release that he sent
out. He
then decided to go
along with misrepresenting himself as a producer of the movie and make
an appearance on Scarborough Country. If you happen to review the
credits to the movie, you will not find Danovan’s name mentioned
anywhere. To take it further, Smith’s only contact with Jarod Danovan
was from a sales encounter this past summer, in which he sold him three
thousand copies of the movie Crackheads Gone Wild. Danovan then went on
to bootleg the movie and set up contractual agreements with Netflix
along with numerous internet retailers without the producer’s of the
movie permission. Jarod Danovan’s misrepresentation is not only a major
issue but also the fact that MSNBC allowed him to do a live interview
without checking his credentials. That means that any of the movie’s
retailers could have gone on the Scarborough show and passed for being a
producer of the movie. We’re talking about a nationally syndicated
program that reaches millions of viewers. You would think that they
would have a solid research team to investigate Danovan’s false claim,
simply by going to the movie’s website and verifying contact information
or by watching the movie and reviewing the credits. There is absolutely
nothing mentioned in these references that associates Jarod Danovan’s
name or his company with the production of Crackheads Gone Wild. What is
more intriguing is that they had expert psychologist Dr. Caryn Stark
debate ethical points of the movie without giving her the opportunity to
watch the movie in its entirety. She contested that the movie was a
graphic mockery of the lives of crack addict’s and that the film will
fail to get anyone off of crack cocaine. Dr. Stark only saw a thirty
second snippet of the movie’s trailer before the airing of the show. How
can one make such a strong professional opinion with seeing only a
limited amount of footage? It is clearly evident that the producers of
Scarborough Country intended to put the movie in a bad light and
sabotage the movie’s positive messages. Crackheads Gone Wild is not a
comedy or meant to degrade any of the addicts who appeared in the movie.
The film is a documentary that tells the story of several people who
have lost their lives to crack cocaine and the message that is
reinforced throughout the movie is clear, "Don’t do Crack!'; If seeing
an addict talk about how they have lost everything to crack is not a
deterrent then I don’t know what is. |
