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The Media Monopoly in American Journalism
Shadows of Liberty presents the phenomenal true story of today's disintegrating freedoms within the U.S. media, and government, that they don't want you to see. The film takes an intrepid journey through the darker corridors of the American media landscape, where global media conglomerates exercise extraordinary political, social, and economic power. The overwhelming collective power of these firms raises troubling questions about democracy. Highly revealing interviews, actuality, and archive material, tell insider accounts of a broken media system, where journalists are prevented from pursuing controversial news stories, people are censored for speaking out against abuses of government power, and individual lives are shattered as the arena for public expression has been turned into a private profit zoneRead moreLess
Shadows of Liberty presents the phenomenal true story of today's disintegrating freedoms within the U.S. media, and government, that they don't want you to see. The film takes an intrepid journey through the darker corridors of the American media landscape, where global media conglomerates exercise extraordinary political, social, and economic power. The overwhelming collective power of these firms raises troubling questions about democracy. Highly revealing interviews, actuality, and archive material, tell insider accounts of a broken media system, where journalists are prevented from pursuing controversial news stories, people are censored for speaking out against abuses of government power, and individual lives are shattered as the arena for public expression has been turned into a private profit zone
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Shadows of Liberty presents the phenomenal true story of today's disintegrating freedoms within the U.S. media, and government, that they don't want you to see. The film takes an intrepid journey through the darker corridors of the American media landscape, where global media conglomerates exercise extraordinary political, social, and economic power. The overwhelming collective power of these firms raises troubling questions about democracy. Highly revealing interviews, actuality, and archive material, tell insider accounts of a broken media system, where journalists are prevented from pursuing controversial news stories, people are censored for speaking out against abuses of government power, and individual lives are shattered as the arena for public expression has been turned into a private profit zone
Watch trailerCast & crew
Julian AssangeSelf
Danny GloverSelf
Charlie RoseSelf - PBS Talk-show Host (archive footage)
David SimonSelf
Barack ObamaSelf - US President (archive footage)
Joe BidenSelf - US Vice President (archive footage)
Al GoreSelf - Former US Vice President (archive footage)
Sean HannitySelf - FoxNews Talk-show Host (archive footage)
Bill ClintonSelf - Former US President (archive footage)
Dick GregorySelf - Comedian / Activist
Rupert MurdochSelf - CEO of NewsCorp (archive footage)
Norman SolomonSelfExplore the crew
- Director
- Jean-Philippe Tremblay
- Producer
- Jean-Philippe Tremblay
- Original Music Composer
- Tandis Jenhudson
- Writer
- Jean-Philippe Tremblay
- Editor
- Gregers Sall
- Writer
- Daniel Cantagallo
- Director of Photography
- Arthur Jafa