Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press

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Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press

2017

1h 36m

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This examination of the duties of the press in an age of inequality delves into the trial between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media. The duel pitted privacy rights against freedom of the press and raised questions about how big money can silence the media.

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Nobody Speaks: The Trials of the Free Press persuasively -- and entertainingly -- outlines the troubling tensions threatening journalism in the internet era.

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Alissa Wilkinson

Vox

06/23/2017

3.5/5

Nobody Speak builds a damning, convincing case that journalism needs protecting.

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

06/23/2017

What the film offers is evidence of a pattern, the shadows of a disturbing trend that add up to a warning: If we, as a society, don't push back against the chipping away of the freedom of information, it's only going to get worse, until it eats us alive.

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

06/23/2017

2.5/4

It has the feel of a late-night conversation at a college party, full of good ideas but lacking focus.

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Louisa Moore

Screen Zealots

12/20/2018

3.5/5

Objectivity and freedom of the press is one of the foundations on which our country was based, and its ability to be controlled by those with deep pockets and influential authority is flat out alarming.

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Alan French

AwardsCircuit.com

10/10/2018

3/4

Knappenberger falls short of greatness by falling victim to the distraction that is Donald Trump.

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Morgan Rojas

Cinemacy

08/06/2018

Watching Knappenberger's documentary will hopefully raise awareness about the state of jeopardy independent journalism is currently in and possibly prevent a situation like Gawker's from happening to another outlet.

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torin f

@nonlinearize 10/11/2022

Makes some interesting cultural connections in telling the Gawker story, but then morphs into a heavy-handed free press advocacy piece that smacks a little of propaganda, despite the important message.

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05/14/2022

What a shitty doc! Love to know how the "disinformation" agency will say about this. Terrible! Just terrible!

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01/23/2022

What could have been a documentary about a gossip site posting "revenge porn" and a "win" for being against "fappenings" . . . turns into Trump derangement syndrome and calling gawker releasing sex tapes "journalism". Looking at this in 2022 with all sorts of tech censorship and common knowledge of corrupt media. No wonder the critic score is in 90s while audience score is pretty low.

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12/03/2021

So …basically, orange man bad.

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05/06/2021

Massively tilted. Tediously predictable. Uses overtly selected emotionally manipulative techniques to support preselected one-dimensional narrative. Hard to draw serious conclusions with such a one-sided bit of propaganda.

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03/21/2021

Outstanding documentary that really brings out the issues for and against truly free journalism.

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Synopsis

This examination of the duties of the press in an age of inequality delves into the trial between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media. The duel pitted privacy rights against freedom of the press and raised questions about how big money can silence the media.

Director: Brian Knappenberger
Producer: Korelan Matteson, Femke Wolting
Screenwriter: Brian Knappenberger
Production Co: Submarine Entertainment
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 24, 2017
Runtime: 1h 36m