I was able to attend a private movie screening of a new film called All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone.
The movie follows the stories of various investigative and independent journalists, who uncover and try to expose the truth about government lies, as did before them the man named I.F. Stone.
The movie was eye opening and expected in many ways. It was eye opening to see the incredible lengths that the journalists go to, in order to always report and find the truth. However, it was expected in the terms that I was not surprised at the deceptions and lies made by the US government that come to light throughout the film.
The journey of John Carlos Frey was incredible and worrying, to see the lack of effort and indeed care shown by US officials and law enforcement in Texas to do anything about the mass graves and burials being investigated by Frey.
I enjoyed seeing how powerhouse journalists in the independent media world like Amy Goodman, Glen Greenwald, and Matt Taibbi have used I.F. Stone and his methods as influence in their own work. The movie gave a backstage access pass to the lives of these independent journalists.
As the movie criticizes mainstream media and how commercial the press of today has become, I came to realize just how this affects an average college student who feels he is informed about what the government is doing.
During the film, they explained how in the aftermath of 9/11, when the entire US airspace was shut down and every single plane in the country was grounded, one plane was authorized to take off. The plane that had aboard it the extended family members of Osama Bin Laden. While this was not news to me, my friend next to me looked clueless at the screen.
I turned to ask him, in much shock, how he did not know this till now. He said this never came on the news and I never read about this online. I realized that even in such a connected world with the Internet, without having the mainstream media of the country cover and report the real issues that matter, many more millions of Americans like him can be left in the dark about the works and decisions made by the government.
The movie follows the stories of various investigative and independent journalists, who uncover and try to expose the truth about government lies, as did before them the man named I.F. Stone.
The movie was eye opening and expected in many ways. It was eye opening to see the incredible lengths that the journalists go to, in order to always report and find the truth. However, it was expected in the terms that I was not surprised at the deceptions and lies made by the US government that come to light throughout the film.
The journey of John Carlos Frey was incredible and worrying, to see the lack of effort and indeed care shown by US officials and law enforcement in Texas to do anything about the mass graves and burials being investigated by Frey.
I enjoyed seeing how powerhouse journalists in the independent media world like Amy Goodman, Glen Greenwald, and Matt Taibbi have used I.F. Stone and his methods as influence in their own work. The movie gave a backstage access pass to the lives of these independent journalists.
As the movie criticizes mainstream media and how commercial the press of today has become, I came to realize just how this affects an average college student who feels he is informed about what the government is doing.
During the film, they explained how in the aftermath of 9/11, when the entire US airspace was shut down and every single plane in the country was grounded, one plane was authorized to take off. The plane that had aboard it the extended family members of Osama Bin Laden. While this was not news to me, my friend next to me looked clueless at the screen.
I turned to ask him, in much shock, how he did not know this till now. He said this never came on the news and I never read about this online. I realized that even in such a connected world with the Internet, without having the mainstream media of the country cover and report the real issues that matter, many more millions of Americans like him can be left in the dark about the works and decisions made by the government.
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