DOC: SHADOWS OF LIBERTY Film Reveals the Corporate-Controlled U.S. Media As Never Before

[Frank W. Baker]

SHADOWS OF LIBERTY is coming to the U.S. for the first time ever beginning in April – live at the Free Press National Conference on Media Reform (April 4), online at http://Shadows.KCETlink.org(beginning April 4), and via national broadcast on KCET and Link (April 5).

We’re creating a grassroots movement from independent media organizations and the media reform community by all blogging, tweeting, Facebooking, and promoting during an INDEPENDENT MEDIA
CAMPAIGN WEEK: APRIL 1-5, 2013. How can you get involved? We hope you’ll use this toolkit and digital assets below to inspire you to blog, embed clips, watch, spread the word to your members and followers in your email newsletters, outreach lists, social channels, and more. If you post a blog piece about the film, let us know and we’ll cross-post at our blog.
All the necessary information and tools, are available at
http://Shadows.KCETlink.org
• About the Film
• How to Watch
• Embeddable Clips (6)
• Sample Social Media Notes
• Sharable Graphics & Facebook Posters (with key quotes from the film)

ABOUT THE FILM:
SHADOWS OF LIBERTY reveals the extraordinary truth behind commercial news media in the United States – censorship, cover-ups and corporate control. Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes a journey through the darker corridors of the commercial U.S. media system, where global conglomerates call the shots. For decades, their overwhelming influence has distorted news journalism and compromised its values.  In highly revealing stories, renowned journalists,
activists and academics give insider accounts of a broken media system. Controversial news reports are suppressed, people are censored for speaking out, and lives are shattered as the arena for public expression is turned into a private profit zone. Tracing the story of media manipulation through the years, SHADOWS OF LIBERTY poses a crucial question: Why have we let a handful of
powerful corporations write the news? We're left in no doubt: Media reform is urgent and freedom of the press is fundamental.

FEATURED IN THE FILM (partial list): Amy Goodman, Julian Assange, David Simon, Dan Rather, Danny Glover, Daniel Ellsberg, Roberta Baskin, Robert McChesney, Bob Bear, John MacArthur,
Dick Gregory, and many, many more.