Shadows Of Liberty

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Shadows Of Liberty — WHO controls the MEDIA?

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Shadows of Liberty

rallies the right-on troops against the mass corporate consolidation of media in the United States since the 1980s. Inspired by the Ben Bagdikian book “The New Media Monopoly”, the film pummels its audience with repeated examples of corporate owner interests interfering with journalists trying to cover stories from Nike sweatshops to plane crash cover-ups to drug links to the US-backed Contras in Nicaragua. The results are predictably chilling.

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You may also want to read the interview with the film’s director Jean-Philippe Tremblay, editor Gregers Sall and composer Tandis Jenhudson.

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Ninety percent of American media is controlled by five big, for-profit-conglomerates, creating a media monopoly of informational and social control never before possible. The overwhelming collective power of these firms raises troubling questions about democracy.........