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corporate -- and how cbs refused to air an investigation by its own corpte, roberta baskin. she had been doing actually a report and it got tremendous acclaim, but then when cbs hooked up with nike in covering the winter olympics and before you know it, the reporters were wearing winter parkas with nike swishes on them. well, that was it for roberta baskin. so that's one of the many stories in this film "shadows of liberty." featuring the voices of activists, journalists, including julianna sung, norm solomon, the creator of "the wire," dan rather of cbs. but i don't need to tell you about this. let's go to the film. >> physical dollars. >> has anybody got good

answers? >> built the brooklyn bridge. >> in this country, the most powerful country on earth, it is so actually difficult to get information, especially outside our borders, not to mention what's going on inside this country. >> four hours and 20 minutes ago, at 9:00 p.m. eastern time -- >> public information, the news we rely on to learn about what's happening in the world, to learn about one another, is in the hands basically of commercial enterprises. >> an agreement on health care is close, but support -- >> giant media corporations like time warner, news corporation, disney and so forth, they get to decide what is news, what is news worthy and what is not news worthy. >> this is america. how many of you want to pay for your neighbors? >> it is distortions, lies, lack of balance. >> i have 900 channels on my tv, but 700 of them are --

>> there are so many great stories. thank god. look at that. >> we have a lot of news to tell you about. anna nicole smith, who died in florida -- >> you have a commercially driven journalist that has no interest in poor people. they're basically written out of the picture altogether. people in power are interested in what they want to talk about. >> when was the last time you were at a wendy's and had a frosty? >> it is to control people's ideas, it is to control their imagination. >> it is part of the establishment and must conduct themselves. >> positive stories. >> positive stories. >> they would edit my pieces, they would put me in different directions. they would turn down stories. >> we are in a profound crisis of democracy. you can't choke off discourse and have a free society. >> this is what you get with corporate america. >> these are stories you will not be told on radio, in

newspapers or on television. a clash between two worlds. big media corporations spinning public perception for profit versus the defenders of truth that stand for liberty and democracy. >> and that's our news for tonight. >> i'd often been asked if there was any pressure on me because of the stories i do.

i was always asked, are there some stories you can't do? are there sometimes you are not allowed to report on certain things because of advertisers? and my answer was absolutely not. [gunfire] >> two decades after the end of the vietnam war, the united states lifted the trade embargo against vietnam and cbs chief correspondent looked into one corporation's search for cheaper labor markets. >> the premise for the story was the fact that nike was subcontracting to these factories on the other side of the planet. but they weren't really taking responsibility for how the shoes were made. and i asked to follow the trail. and a ugust of 1996, she

cbs film crew flew to vietnam to investigate the nike factories. >> we were to peek through the keyhole but we were not allowed inside. we were barred. >> as she waited outside the factory gates, what she heard from the workers would forever change her views on nike. >> one of the things that really shocked me is to discover that the word nike had become a verb. the word nike meant to abuse your employees. they were incidences of physical abuse, women who had their mouths taped shot for taking on the line. 15 women were systematically .ere hit by a nike shoe it was this disparity between seeing the corporate image that the company sells and the

reality in these factories. just do it, or else. >> roberta's news report about nike abuses was broadcast on cbs news television across the united states. >> cbs was very pleased submitting it for prestigious awards. for me it was really exciting about it was that the phones rang off the hook. there were boycotts that were being organized by students on campuses. >> we are not a nike school. >> it touched some kind of a nerve. >> nike's labor abuses reached the media and the shoe giant came forward to limit the damages. >> we don't have abusive labor conditions in our factories and

really never have. >> with nike in denial, cbs news commissioned her to do a follow-up investigation. working with a vietnamese labor group. >> roberta's work was mainly about the corporate punishment. we helped add another dimension to the problems that the wages and excessive amount of overtime. >> nike is not the good guys. people at that moment realized they were not part of a good team. >> as baskin was putting together the updated news report on nike's labor practices, she received unexpected news from inside cbs.

>> i got a call from my executive producer who said the story is not going to air. it's been taken off schedule. there's some sort of deal being made between nike and cbs news for the upcoming winter olympics. the air went out of my soul. >> cbs news was paying an enormous amount of money for the rights, and so by definition they would be seeking out commercial sponsors who would pour lots of money into it so they could recoup the millions that they were paying for the rights of the olympics. >> the 18th olympic winter games on cbs. >> as cbs revealed their olympic coverage, the deal between nike and cbs was plain to see. >> corpte after corpte are wearing -- correspondant after correspondant were wearing jackets with cbs or something other and a big swoosh on the shoulder.

that was the deal. nike had convinced cbs news to turn its correspondants into billboards. it was heartbreaking. >> the cbs news correspondants were furious. they had to wear the nike parkas whenever they appeared on air. just not done. >> baskin wrote a memo requesting cbs management to ke the nike logo off the correspondants. >> cbs had crossed this incredible line. how do you trust serious stories when you're seeing the reporter wearing a bunch of logos? immediately the president of cbs news responded saying this was a breach of professional etiquette. it meant that i should shut up. how dare i raise a question about the integrity of cbs

ews? >> after questioning the deal with nike, baskin was removed from her position as the chief correspondant of cbs news. >> it wasn't an ordinary transfer, a change. it was a demotion. and it was a demotion that was -- sent a message. >> i ended up asking if i could et out of my contract. the president responded, great. they were happy to see me go. hi. i'm roberta baskin from cbs news. >> yeah. >> i wanted to talk to you -- >> today, the cbs network has buried both of baskin's reports on the nike sweatshops.

>> these are the kind of fundamental conflicts of interest that results in censorship, that resulted in a narrow debate and they come directly from the fact that we have made these historical choices to allow corporations to own and control our media. >> media today is dominated by a handful of corporations. this is a far cry from the original ideals of the country. >> as americans fought for independence from imperial rule, the revolution found its inspiration in an unexpected place.

[gunfire] >> the united states was in many senses founded by journalist tom payne, who called americans to revolution against a british empire that was thought to be completely nbeatable. this country was really founded on the concept, if you gave citizens the information they needed, they could govern themselves. >> the founders of the united states gave citizens the fundamental right to a free press. >> a revolution for freedom of information. >> one of the primary reasons for freedom of the press was that it was the only way people outside of power could keep the government from becoming an empire, stop militaryism, stop

corruption and the cronyism. that was the function of freedom of the press. >> there's a reason why our profession, journalism, is the only one explicitly protected by the u.s. constitution. because we're supposed to be holding those in power accountable, asking the critical questions. >> one of the first steps of the new government was to encourage the distribution of independent news through subsidies. >> read all about it. >> this was america's revolutionary contribution. the genius of the subsidies is that it did not discriminate against the content of the newspapers. >> the abolitionist movement didn't start in congress. it started in those freely distributed weekly newspapers. and that was really where we began to address the most

fundamental sense of the american experiment. >> it simply information that's power, it's information that frees us because when people get information they can then decide what to do. >> today the founding vision of america's journalistic independence has become deeply distorted. >> the conversation we have as a society, it's the way we learn about the world, it's the way we learn about one another. we see the range of public debate constrained because there may be many things that citizens of a democratic society need to know about that private corporations may not be interested in telling them.

>> there are what i call black holes in journalism. there's certain events and certain subjects that you may not cover. >> on the night of july 17, 1996, flight t.w.a. 800 was en route from new york city to paris carrying 230 passengers when disaster struck. >> bringing you up to date, a t.w.a. flight, a 747 aircraft has gone down. >> see in the water down there, it is the burning wreckage from that plane. >> that day i was at cbs and my executive producer called me down and told me to look into

it. it completely changed my life, shifted my paradigm. >> as she investigated the crash for cbs news, many people reported something disturbing they'd seen in the night sky. >> all these eyewitnesses said they'd seen something go up and they followed it up to where the plane was and all of a sudden the plane exploded. >> with different reports emerging about t.w.a. 800, the f.b.i. declared the surrounding area a crime scene. >> if it is a terrorist event, we then have the challenge of who the perpetrators were, who he cowards were that did this. >> as navy divers were called to recover the plane's wreckage, rumors of friendly

fire emerged. >> that first f.b.i. press conference i went to, some guy raised his hand and he said, why is the navy involved in the -- ery when they are -- they are supts? -- suspects? he pointed at him and said, remove him. and people went on as this hadn't happened. in my mind we should all have pressed on that question. >> military, friendly fire was not involved in this incident, and i use the strongest terms i could use. i said it was highly, highly, highly, highly unlikely. >> despite f.b.i. denials, her research uncovered a different scenario based on the navy's

activity on the night of the disaster. >> when they released the radar information they only gave half of it. they cut it off right when you could see that there were all these military vessels in this exercise zone that was right there. not only were there ships there but there actually was a live fire exercise going on off the coast that night. >> and that's why they had closed down the flight corridor that is parallel to the commercial flight path. >> t.w.a. 800. .w.a. 800. t.w.a. 800. >> that was him. >> i think so. >> it was.

>> when there's a distress you're supposed to by law of the sea go and help. these ships went in absolute the wrong direction away from he crash site and at 30 knots. >> the search for clear-cut evidence continued, and she was offered a piece of seat fabric from the plane that underwent preliminary testing. >> the tests revealed there were heavy metals in it that were consistent with a missile strike that went through the plane at a certain point where this seat was very close to and christina received a sample to do independent verification. >> i mean, it was just amazing. how many times do you get hard evidence from something? i had no idea there was going to be any problem whatsoever. >> as cbs news gave her the go

ahead to accept the seat fabric, she was close to discovering whether a missile strike had brought down the plane. >> and i was looking around for lab and that's when the f.b.i. called and said, you have a piece of stolen evidence. to my great disappointment and dismay, cbs just gave it right back. >> cbs has given federal investigators a piece of cloth purportedly from the downed t.w.a. flight 800. the f.b.i. wanted the fabric because -- >> cbs folded like an ice cube in the sun that just went. they decided this is not a story we're going to fight for. it was a great moment of spinelessness on the corporate media's part. >> no evidence has been found which would indicate that a criminal act was the cause of the tragedy of t.w.a. flight 800. the law enforcement team has looked at every theory and has

left no stone unturned. >> with eyewitness accounts of a possible missile strike still unexplained, the cray produced an an -- the soy produced an an -- the c.i.a. produced an animation that was broadcasted nationally. >> it wasn't like they went out and talked to the fishing boat captain who had seen something completely different. >> flames visible to eyewitnesses more than 40 miles away -- >> i did and i said this is ridiculous. this does not describe what i saw. >> it produced an -- >> the video shown on network tv, it was shown nationally, it was shown over and over. >> to date there is no evidence that any eyewitness saw a missile shoot down t.w.a. flight 800. >> the press bought it. the press bought the government's version of events. >> at the time of the disaster, westinghouse, a nuclear power company, and major defense

ontractor, owned cbs news. >> any logical person would go, well, where does the vast majority of their money come from? government contracting. if christina was getting too close to the truth, would they shut down the investigation or lose their government contracts? i mean, these are logical questions that you have to wonder. hat's more important to cbs? >> ultimately, her pursuit of what happened that night challenged the priorities of corporate media. >> i walked into this meeting of news executives. i said, why aren't we covering this? and one guy looks up at me and goes, oh, you think it's a missile, don't you? and i said, i don't know what it is, but i tell you it's not

a straightforward thing. i said there's something going on here. and there was just this silence , d i was just looking at it the sea of white shirts as i turned around and left and i said, gosh, my goose is cooked here and it was. you know, i was out a few weeks later. >> the government's official explanation of the disaster, mechanical failure, hasn't been proven and questions still remain. >> i can't tell you with absolute certainty what happened. when that many people die, you owe it to them and to the other people who are getting on those planes every day to find out what really happened.

>> when you have corporations whose economic interests are very much tied into the agendas set by government, it's easy to let go an individual journalist who is seen as a trouble maker than shake up the entire system which has the notion that official sources are never wrong. > campbell soup. >> just as newspapers had been the driving force behind democracy, the great hope of the 20th century was the birth of mass media. [applause] >> we think google and facebook is a big deal. imagine what it must have been like in rural kansas to suddenly be able to listen to a broadcast from new york city every night. how that collapsed the world in the ways that it's very difficult for us to conceive of

today. >> perkins, the star, arrive. and now we head down to 48th street. >> the financial house collapsed and the overinflated stock market went into a great depression. >> with a great depression and went n -- the president to the airwaves. >> you can't be part of rumors or guesses. tonight we cannot fail. and it's up to you to support and make it work. >> it was apparent to people at the time that the control over this medium was going to be a form of social control. >> lucky strike means -- >> this is nbc, the national broadcasting -- >> with broadcasting money pouring in, corporate networks pressured congress to uphold profit as the basis for american broadcasting. >> your cigarette taste different lately?

>> this is publicly owned property and lots of americans protested that we would turn over this scarce resource, this extraordinaire waves to a handful of private interests to make money selling advertising to us. >> decided to tackle the job of telling off the air. >> in 1934, congress passed the communications act, sealing the future of america's broadcasting as a for-profit business. >> nbc, cbs, abc, these huge empires, were built upon the gift for free of monopoly rights to government property. it was an extraordinary corporate welfare that boggles the mind. >> the recent study found that anywhere between 40% and 70% of what is considered news is an idea that came out of a corporate p.r. department. the media should have a social

responsibility and unfortunately that does not happen in the current context. >> with broadcasting set up as a commercial enterprise, government regulations were put into place to prevent monopolies. >> there was a cross-party agreement that commercial activity would be regulated by the government. no individual should have such dominance of our media that they could effectively define a discourse. the great transition came in the election of ronald reagan as president of the united

states. >> government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. [applause] >> ronald reagan believed the answer to any concern, any question as regard to create a good media system is to get government out of the way. >> in order to restructure media ownership, reagan removed regulations. >> driving the bears back into permanent hibernation, we'll turn the bull loose. [applause] >> that whole model was the idea that if you removed all controls and regulation and allowed the free market, then everything would be fine, everything would be wonderful.

>> in reality, what it allows is a handful of giant corporations to come in and gobble up everything and these conglomerates don't see journalism as actually being essential to the functioning for democracy. their main interest is making profits. >> one merger symbolized the takeover of mass media by conglomerates seeking ever higher profits. >> for general electric, here is ronald reagan. >> good evening on this last sunday before christmas. christmas season is a time for the family -- >> people need to remember that ronald reagan was funded by large corporations and so suddenly we saw a radical transformation of the media system in the united states. >> general electric and r.c.a.,

two of america's biggest and best known companies in a dramatic move last night to announce plans to merge. this high-tech multibillion dollar wall street wedding complete with a major television network. >> we will now have the strongest network, we'll have a stronger defense piece. this is going to be one dynamite company. >> the concentration of mass media in the hands of a very few, very large international corporations who have a lot of different businesses, defense business, theme parks and news became a smaller and smaller part of ever larger corporations. >> the reagan administration approved general elect trick's purchase of major media holdings, despite ongoing violations of industry laws and practices. >> meanwhile, from general

electric, from my family and myself, a merry, merry christmas. don't you want to say merry christmas? >> the demands of wall street will require empty desks in your newsroom so why don't you minimize your actual product and make more money? capitalism is not the best judge of what's good for a society. when i knew it was time to go, the last speech i got from the c.e.o., he'd been selling cereal, breakfast cereal before he was selling newspapers. he came into baltimore and gave a speech about product, he never once mentioned news, he never once mentioned the role of the newspaper. >> current mission is to sell

things. to delude and to deceive, to do damage control when unpleasant stories come up. >> you have been watching a remarkable documentary and we ask you to go to the phone right now. it's called "shadows of liberty." jean-philippe by trambleau. we want you to stand up for independent media. we urge you to go to the phone. 866-359-4334. we were just about to move into a segment about the late journalist gary webb, a remarkable story when it's hard to believe how quickly the internet has taken over. but at the beginning when newspapers were beginning to use their websites, did this incredible series for the san jose mercury news called the

"dark alliance" how u.s. money being funneled through contras in nicaragua with a. this was at the time of the iran can't are a and was being used to fund drugs coming back into this country and led to the crack epidemic in this country, especially in poor african-american communities. yet another example in "shadows of liberty." you were listening to roberto baskin covering the nike factory sweatshops and then ultimately the story she did was so popular she was their chief correspondant at cbs. they asked her to do a follow-up. she's in the midst of that and suddenly all bets are off. and nike and cbs form a partnership to cover the winter olympics. and before she knows it, her documentary, her special is not airing. and instead cbs reporters are wearing the nike swoosh on their reporters' winter parkas

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