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Episode: New World Notes with Kenneth Dowst - #313 - More Media Monopoly (Shadows of Liberty Part 2 of 2)
From the New World Notes blog:
A new documentary film examines how a few huge, for-profit corporations control the news media--and so control the "news." Brief history lessons on the U.S. media alternate with close looks at particular stories the corporate news media suppressed.
Amy Goodman, Robert McChesney, Julian Assange, Janine Jackson, Norman Solomon, Daniel Ellsberg, John Nichols, Dan Rather, and several other commentators appear.
Adapted to radio by Kenneth Dowst.
Shadows of Liberty was written, directed, and produced by Canadian filmmaker Jean-Plilippe Tremblay.
In Part 2:
How a wave of corporate mergers--each with the government's blessing--created near-monopoly control of the news. And the story of reporter Gary Webb. Webb was destroyed by the big corporate media after exposing the CIA's role in the crack-cocaine trade in the US.
Plus an essay by Paul Krugman on why the latest proposed media merger--Comcast and Time Warner Cable--is another really bad idea.
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