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Crude attempt to suppress free speech -- A Legacy of an Oil Spill the Size of Rhode Island
    #12606130 - 05/21/10 07:46 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

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Crude attempt to suppress free speech
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
GateHouse News Service
Posted May 21, 2010 @ 05:23 AM

Even as headlines and broadcast news are dominated by BP’s fire-ravaged, sunken offshore rig and the ruptured well gushing a reported 210,000 gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico, there’s another important story involving Big Oil and pollution — one that shatters not only the environment but the essential First Amendment right of journalists to tell truth and shame the devil.

Our story is about another petrochemical giant — Chevron — and a major threat to independent journalism. In New York this month, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered documentary producer and director Joe Berlinger to turn over to Chevron more than 600 hours of raw footage used to create a film titled “Crude: The Real Price of Oil.”

Released last year, it’s the story of how 30,000 Ecuadorians rose up to challenge the pollution of their bodies, livestock, rivers and wells from Texaco’s drilling for oil there, a rainforest disaster that has been described as the Amazon’s Chernobyl. When Chevron acquired Texaco in 2001 and attempted to dismiss claims that it was now responsible, the indigenous people and their lawyers fought back in court.

Some of the issues and nuances of Berlinger’s case are admittedly complex, but they all boil down to this: Chevron is trying to avoid responsibility and hopes to find in the unused footage — material the filmmaker did not utilize in the final version of his documentary — evidence helpful to the company in fending off potential damages of $27.3 billion.

This is a serious matter for reporters, filmmakers and frankly, everyone else. Tough, investigative reporting without fear or favor — already under siege by severe cutbacks and the shutdown of newspapers and other media outlets — is vital to the public awareness and understanding essential to a democracy.

In an open letter on Joe Berlinger’s behalf, signed by many in the nonfiction film business (including the two of us), the Independent Documentary Association described Chevron’s case as a “fishing expedition” and wrote that, “If witnesses sense that their entire interviews will be scrutinized by attorneys and examined in courtrooms they will undoubtedly speak less freely. This ruling surely will have a crippling effect on the work of investigative journalists everywhere, should it stand.”

Just so. With certain exceptions, the courts have considered outtakes of a film to be the equivalent of a reporter’s notebook, to be shielded from the scrutiny of others. If reporters, journalists and filmmakers are required to turn research, transcripts and outtakes over to a government or a corporation — or to one party in a lawsuit — the whole integrity of the process of journalism is in jeopardy; no one will talk to them.

Chevron, the third largest corporation in America, according to Forbes magazine, has hauled out its lawyers in a case that would undermine the right of journalists to protect the people by telling them the truth. Joe Berlinger and his legal team have asked Judge Kaplan to suspend his order pending an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

As the Independent Documentary Association writes, “We urge the higher courts to overturn this ruling to help ensure the safety and protection of journalists and their subjects, and to promote a free and vital press in our nation and around the world.”

Bill Moyers is president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. Michael Winship is president of the Writers Guild of America, East. Rebecca Wharton conducted original research for this article.
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Re: Crude attempt to suppress free speech -- A Legacy of an Oil Spill the Size of Rhode Island [Re: C20H25N3O]
    #12606149 - 05/21/10 07:51 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

Sad that there have to be movies made about such things. A sad sad
truth. Thanx for the post :thumbup:

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Re: Crude attempt to suppress free speech -- A Legacy of an Oil Spill the Size of Rhode Island [Re: DeadHearts]
    #12606249 - 05/21/10 08:14 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

The other sad part is the attached article

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In New York this month, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered documentary producer and director Joe Berlinger to turn over to Chevron more than 600 hours of raw footage used to create a film titled “Crude: The Real Price of Oil.”




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Re: Crude attempt to suppress free speech -- A Legacy of an Oil Spill the Size of Rhode Island [Re: C20H25N3O]
    #12606270 - 05/21/10 08:19 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

Reeeeallly??

:strokebeard: I dont even know weather or not to get pissed
anymore.

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Re: Crude attempt to suppress free speech -- A Legacy of an Oil Spill the Size of Rhode Island [Re: DeadHearts]
    #12607118 - 05/21/10 10:59 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

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DeadHearts said:
Reeeeallly??

:strokebeard: I dont even know weather or not to get pissed
anymore.




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Re: Crude attempt to suppress free speech -- A Legacy of an Oil Spill the Size of Rhode Island [Re: C20H25N3O]
    #12607157 - 05/21/10 11:08 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

I shall be at peace with the coming changes  :super:

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Re: Crude attempt to suppress free speech -- A Legacy of an Oil Spill the Size of Rhode Island [Re: DeadHearts]
    #12610131 - 05/22/10 03:00 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

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DeadHearts said:
I shall be at peace with the coming changes  :super:





I suppose thats all you can do.


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