Cornell Cinema hosted a screening of filmmaker Fred Peabody's 2016 documentary All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone last Tuesday evening. The film, made during the run up to the 2016 Presidential election, celebrates the work of legendary independent journalist I.F. Stone, and critiques the mainstream and independent media of today. Eleven days into the Trump administration, the film's castigation of the mainstream media for it's deplorable coverage of the 2016 U.S. Presidential race and the implications for democracy of an impotent Fourth Estate are more than spot on, they are prophetic.
All Government's Lie features a virtual who's who of Indie Media legends like: Democracy Now's Amy Goodman and journalists she has nurtured such as Jeremy Scahill, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Matt Taibbi, as well as muckraking filmmaker Michael Moore, The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur, Chris Hedges and more. The film also features commentary from leading U.S. intellectual and critic Noam Chomsky as well as Investigative Journalist and author of All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein. Producer Jeff Cohen was on hand to introduce the film and host a spirited Q & A afterward. Cohen's own contributions to Independent Journalism are formidable. He founded FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) in 1986, and in 2008, Ithaca College's Park Center for Independent Media, where he is currently professor of Journalism. Cohen himself is a consistent voice throughout the film, as well as a prime organizer of the material the film deals with.
All Government's Lie features a virtual who's who of Indie Media legends like: Democracy Now's Amy Goodman and journalists she has nurtured such as Jeremy Scahill, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Matt Taibbi, as well as muckraking filmmaker Michael Moore, The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur, Chris Hedges and more. The film also features commentary from leading U.S. intellectual and critic Noam Chomsky as well as Investigative Journalist and author of All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein. Producer Jeff Cohen was on hand to introduce the film and host a spirited Q & A afterward. Cohen's own contributions to Independent Journalism are formidable. He founded FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) in 1986, and in 2008, Ithaca College's Park Center for Independent Media, where he is currently professor of Journalism. Cohen himself is a consistent voice throughout the film, as well as a prime organizer of the material the film deals with.
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