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'Shadows of Liberty' is a documentary feature-film examining the media crisis in the United States. The film takes a harrowing journey through the dark corridors of the American media landscape where massive corporations exercise extraordinary political and economic power.
Artfully mixing interviews, actuality, reconstructions, and archive material, we hear insider accounts from a broken media system, where journalists are prevented from pursuing controversial news stories, citizens are censored for speaking out against abuses of government power, and individual lives have been shattered as the arena for public expression has been turned into a private profit zone.
The democratic principles of free press have been eroded by a new corporate media monopoly. The principles of a free and open Internet are changing as corporations and governments are restricting access. We need to take action and take our public media back.
Speakers: Charlie Beckett, Pratap Chatterjee, Jean-Phillipe Tremblay
Presented in Partnership with LSE.
The Opening Gala is free to all however a ticket is required, only one ticket per person can be requested.
Artfully mixing interviews, actuality, reconstructions, and archive material, we hear insider accounts from a broken media system, where journalists are prevented from pursuing controversial news stories, citizens are censored for speaking out against abuses of government power, and individual lives have been shattered as the arena for public expression has been turned into a private profit zone.
The democratic principles of free press have been eroded by a new corporate media monopoly. The principles of a free and open Internet are changing as corporations and governments are restricting access. We need to take action and take our public media back.
Speakers: Charlie Beckett, Pratap Chatterjee, Jean-Phillipe Tremblay
Presented in Partnership with LSE.
The Opening Gala is free to all however a ticket is required, only one ticket per person can be requested.
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