i did it happen in denver colorado at the national conference for media reform
and here was john felipe tremblay director of shadows of liberty
six years to produce
uh... censorship
corporate control of media water what was the into dysphoric first working on
this bill
well other
we want to make a film mile with talk factory and the birth of foundation
about so what matters most to people uh... the route that the goal of our
independent media
uh... organization
is to investigate
and research subjects are more support team
people to the
mass population
and that's your nerve research we came upon uh...
uh... a book
by an amazing american journalist uh... his name is ben victor kiam
he wrote uh... a book entitled uh... the new media monopoly
and the new media monopoly uh... looks at
uh... american nine media and says uh...
that's are five corporations
uh... control most of the uh... the media
in the united states and around the world
sold
by looking at this uh... it was clear to us that media
the most imports subject for
for everyone because no matter what you're interested about whether its
environmental politics
or or uh... uh... business or culture
learn about that through the media
so it's important to really know where the media comes from
uh... dot
most of it is controlled by these
conglomerates and the bottom line is profit so what weekend
is uh... a lot of stories a lot of new stories that are a full of uh...
propaganda
lies distortion and that's what we've investigated in the film
so i think a lot of people understand these are the at least heard about
this idea that these five ba corporations control most media
for people who are making the connection directly to what is the downside howard
how is the average media consumer negatively affected by that talk about
that a little bit in other words what how how is that bad
well the thing is is that's uh... you know we live in at the bar person uh...
and no matter where you want to call the societies within
uh... what's really important for us uh... to live our lives is to get inform
information
information about where we live
uh... information about how we can
uh... become educated uh... make choices uh... in our lives we have to make a
living
uh... so information
is is really the pillar of any society
especially a democratic society
uh... here in the united states of democracy was based upon journalism
uh... the right to information the freedom to information
and uh... so when we understand that information is the most important things
uh... finger in our lives
um... it's important for us to get that rate information and one is filtered
through corporations or through conglomerates
whose main interest is profit
um... and who have other interests as well it's not all of the media that
uh... or
news organizations that they owned and run
uh... somebody's conglomerates have other business interests like a defense
contracts or they make a
uh... nuclear
energy uh... or they make weaponry
uh... so we have to know this intended that's the problem is that when
information is filtered through these corporations
we don't know if she gets the real truth
two uh... two stories and uh... we need to get down to the truth because uh...
that's the most important ask how we can make a proper decisions about who we
vote for in elections about and i think a lot of times also it's not us
beaufort in other words as a casual consumer of media
one might not realize you know i'd remember when the people water horizon
oil spill happened and within days right after wolf blitzer says will take a
break with more information about people under her eyes and after this going to
be p commercial comes on
that was kinda for a lot of people they've really side ray it was used a
very clear connection of the problem
throughout the year on an ongoing basis and i think people necessarily realize
those conflicts of interest when they just casually consumer news
but you're absolutely right and i guess that's what
part of the reason why we want to make the film was really to to bring
awareness to how deep the the problem is and and
and how much control uh...
these corporations have been exactly so
black-and-white anymore i mean
uh... we look at uh... dictatorships uh...
around the world uh... uh... and throughout history you know you speak
black-and-white
we you know we knew that
uh... the person in power was a dictator uh... controlled all the newspapers
and uh... this is insane
uh... living within that dictatorship knew that you know it was a very
black-and-white kind of decision they have to make
whereas now uh...
the propaganda through these corporations
uh... has become so sophisticated but it's very hard for us to notice and if
you want your film shadows of liberty
uh... you can see to the extent
uh... how far these corporations go to
uh...
make up their stories and and to also follow
uh... you know
government lines official lines official sources
these kinds of things that
a lot of the time leads us to more war
leads us to more corruption
we follow this in the in the film uh... by looking at journalists courtroom
reports of the truth out of stories uh... uh... stories out of
uh... wars that are happening around the world uh... corporations
running businesses
around the world and we see that when these journalists
um...
report on power
there stop
to do the reporting in their brushed aside and there
done by these very extremely powerful institutions such as the american
government and the corporations are supported
the film the shadows of liberty john for the tremblay thank you so much thank you
so much david