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NOBODY SPEAK: TRIALS OF THE FREE PRESS
June 23, 2017  | By David Bianculli

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

 

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: GLOW isn’t the only Netflix program premiering today that has a connection to wrestling. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press, directed by Brian Knappenberger, focuses on the case of Bollea v. Gawker, in which former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan sued the gossip website Gawker for posting a sex video of him. The lawsuit was financed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who used his money and muscle to not only pursue the case, but to financial bankrupt Gawker in the process. The rest of Nobody Speaks asks if wealthy people using their influence and resources to shut down media voices of which they disapprove is a good thing. The question should be rhetorical – but in this day and age, it’s not. And Gawker, and what it strove to share with the public, was hardly the New York Times and the Pentagon Papers. But here we are…

 
 
 
 
 
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