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

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All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)

Directed by: Fred Peabody

93min

Of the great oppositional U.S. journalists, I.F. Stone was surely the most influential. His weekly newsletter exposed government corruption and collusion, and mixed humour and politics to devastating effect. This slickly-shot documentary uses Stone’s legacy as a starting point to profile contemporary independent journalists, and the issues that matter most to them; stories of humanist importance that are usually drowned out by the misinformation megaphone of corporate media, where economic imperatives Trump the societal. This film is an important documentation of journalists and media who provide a counterbalance to power. A welcome tribute, not to the impossible folly of “free” journalism, but to a higher purpose: ethical journalism. Courtesy of FilmsTransit