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'; Very informative and interesting, however there are no surprises and shocks. return false; Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes a journey through the darker corridors of the US media, where global conglomerates call the shots.Monica Klonowski, Teaching Sociology "A slick, masterful political essay on the degradation of contemporary journalism...Rises above its contemporary counterparts by concentrating on convincing and compelling evidence." zBox=document.all.zBoxDiv; http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/vocabulary\/countries\/pau> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/934063> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1377733884#Topic\/mass_media_ownership_united_states> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1377733884#Topic\/press_and_propaganda_united_states> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/879682> ; http:\/\/dewey.info\/class\/071.3\/e23\/> ; http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh2008106178> ; http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh2008104079> ; http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh85070753> ; http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh2010100846> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1204155> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1011239> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1011278> ; http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh2010100847> ; http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh2009121936> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1011339> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1011273> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1011231> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/984072> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/984032> ; http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh2008107507> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1075872> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1377733884#Topic\/mass_media_censorship_united_states> ; http:\/\/worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/id\/1377733884> ; http:\/\/midwesttapes.com\/images\/movies\/000\/000\/000\/011\/575\/000000000011575687.jpg> ; http:\/\/worldcat.org\/isbn\/9781937772574> ; http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/-\/oclc\/856172700> ; http:\/\/dewey.info\/class\/071.3\/e23\/>, http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1377733884#Topic\/mass_media_censorship_united_states>. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: Your request to send this item has been completed. else { } else { Shadows of Liberty as a film, and Jean Philippe Tremblay as auteur are both definitely newsworthy. alert (message); else if (zLink && zNew) { Ultimately has our commercial world caused us to lose one of the most precious commodities of all--unbiased information? Please enter your name. Freedom of the press may be the law of the land, but, as. We're left in no doubt--media reform is urgent and freedom of the press is fundamental."--Container.
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The film begins with three journalists whose careers were destroyed because of the stories they broke: Roberta Baskin, whose scoop about Nike sweatshops didn't sit well with CBS when Nike became a co-sponsor of the Olympics; Kristina Borjesson, another CBS reporter, whose job lasted precisely one week after the network spiked her investigation into the TWA Flight 800 disaster in 1996; and Gary Webb, whose story linking US support for Nicaraguan Contras and the epidemic in crack cocaine was trashed by The New York Times and the Washington Post.
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