{"id":7839,"date":"2015-05-05T05:54:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7839"},"modified":"2015-05-05T05:54:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:54:56","slug":"watching-shadows-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7839","title":{"rendered":"Watching Shadows of Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/05\/watching-shadows-of-liberty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Watching Shadows of Liberty<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A powerful new film on what\u2019s wrong with the U.S. media is now being screened around the country. It\u2019s called\u00a0<a title=\"Shadows of Liberty\" href=\"http:\/\/shadowsofliberty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shadows of Liberty<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and you can set up a screening of it as part of an upcoming international week of actions for whistleblowers called\u00a0<a title=\"Stand Up For Truth\" href=\"http:\/\/standupfortruth.org\/how-you-can-stand-up-for-truth\" target=\"_blank\">Stand Up For Truth<\/a>. Or you can buy the DVD or catch it on Link TV. (Here in Charlottesville I\u2019ll be speaking at the event, May 19, 7 p.m. at The Bridge.)<\/p>\n<p>Judith Miller is on a rehabilitative book tour; the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0recently reported that a victim of Baltimore police murder broke his own spine; and recently leaked emails from the State Department asked Sony to entertain us into proper war support. The proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner was just blocked, for now, but the existence of those mega-monopolies in their current form is at the root of the problem, according to\u00a0<em>Shadows of Liberty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Allowing for-profit companies to decide what we learn about the world and our government, allowing those companies to consolidate into a tiny cartel controlling the formerly public airwaves, allowing them to be owned by much larger companies that rely on the government for weapons contracts, and allowing them to determine politicians\u2019 access to the public and to bribe politicians with \u201ccampaign contributions\u201d \u2014 this, in the analysis of\u00a0<em>Shadows of Liberty<\/em>, this subservience of public space to private profit is what creates news that misinforms, that takes no interest in the poor, that propagandizes for wars, and that shuts out any journalist who steps out of line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Shadows of Liberty A powerful new film on what\u2019s wrong with the U.S. media is now being screened around the country. It\u2019s called\u00a0Shadows of Liberty\u00a0and you can set up a screening of it as part of an upcoming international week of actions for whistleblowers called\u00a0Stand Up For Truth. Or you can buy the DVD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[338,2239,379,462,483,512,1426,938,655,5174],"class_list":["post-7839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-freedom","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-government","tag-journalism","tag-liberty-2","tag-media","tag-misinformation","tag-press-freedom","tag-propaganda","tag-stand-up-for-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7840,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839\/revisions\/7840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}