Kent Bye is the author of a unique film documentary in progress that may become a future model for grassroots citizen journalism while showing how to invest filmmaking skills and ideas in a production that has some real informative values and developing the first Web-based collaborative video editing approach to build Open Source movies and documentaries.

The documentary project led by Kent Bye is called the Echo Chamber Project and it is one major attempt to shed extra light and understanding on the ongoing critique of the U.S. television network news coverage of the Bush administration’s path to the Iraq War.

Not only.

Kent Bye’s documentary effort is also about how skewed and untrustworthy mainstream media can be, how it can mislead, lie, and paint colors that are not in the actual subject being covered.

It is also about how to find new ways in which we can collaboratively produce a documentary, while leaving maximum freedom of expression and action to all those involved.

Kent Bye’s approach to creating a collaborative, investigative news documentary is a great, positive signal that there are, indeed, young and talented American brains who keep asking the right questions, and will not let go until they are able to get a full answer on them.

Read the full story and listen to the audio interview:
Collaborative Video Documentary Investigating US Media Echo Chamber Role Towards The Iraq War Countdown

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