All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

with a journalist panel discussion following the film
Film Info
Director(s):Fred Peabody
Editor(s):Jim Munro
James Yates
Principal Cast:Carl Bernstein
Noam Chomsky
David Corn
John Carlos Frey
Amy Goodman
Glenn Greenwalkd
Chris Hedges
Michael Moore
Ralph Nader
Jeremy Scahill
Matt Taibbi
Cenk Uygur
Cinematographer:John Westheuser
Producer:Peter Raymond
Oliver Stone
Jeff Cohen
Steve Ord
Country:Canada
Year of Production:2016
Running Time:92 min.
Language(s):English
Categories:Documentary
Genre-Subject:Politics
Social Action
Activism
HUman Rights
Journalism
History
Media & News

Description

Independent journalists like Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Matt Taibbi are changing the face of journalism, providing investigative, adversarial alternatives to mainstream, corporate news outlets. The cameras follow them as they expose government and corporate deception - just as the ground-breaking independent journalist I.F. Stone did decades ago. Featuring new interviews with Carl Bernstein, Noam Chomsky, Ana Kasparian, and Michael Moore.

Followed by journalist panel discussion moderated by Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Rick Goldsmith with:

Rick Goldsmith (panel moderator) has been producing, directing and editing documentary films for 35 years.  He received a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship from the Carter Center to aid in the production of his latest film Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw.  Rick was nominated twice for an Academy Award for his feature documentaries Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press and (with Judith Ehrlich) The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Paper, both of which focus heavily on the role—and both strengths and shortcomings-- of America's news media. 

 

Rose Aguilar is the host of “Your Call,” a daily radio show on KALW 91.7 FM, and author of “Red Highways: A Journey Into the Heartland” chronicling a 6-month trip through the so-called “red states.”  She has written for The Guardian, The Nation, Truthdig, and Al Jazeera English, is currently working on a book about older women activists and a new radio show focusing on investigative journalism.  She is a member of the Native American Journalists Association and mentor-editor for The OpEd Project, an organization that works to increase the range of voices we hear in the media.

 

Norman Solomon is a journalist, media critic, author and activist.  He wrote the nationally syndicated "Media Beat" weekly column from 1992 to 2009.  His dozen books include War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.  A documentary film based on War Made Easy was released in 2007.  Solomon is the founder of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a consortium of policy researchers and analysts, is co-founder of the online organization RootsAction.org, with nearly 1 million active supporters, and is a longtime associate of the media watch group FAIR-- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting.

 

David Talbot is a longtime San Franciscan, journalist and author.  His books include Season of the Witch, a history of San Francisco from the 1960s to the 1980s, and, most recently, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government which was a New York Times bestseller.  David founded the pioneering online news site Salon and was an editor at the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner.  He has been published in The New Yorker, Time, the Guardian, The Los Angeles Times among others, and currently writes a three-times-a-week column for the San Francisco Chronicle.