In this important, powerful, and timely lecture, Amy Goodman--independent journalist and host of the popular radio show Democracy Now!--speaks about the corporate media's coverage of the 2003 Iraq War. She discusses the way that the U.S. media downplayed civilian casualities and glorified military combat, and she asks her audience to consider the costs of coverage that is both sanitized and sensationalized. At the core of her lecture is a deep commitment to the ethics of journalism--she believes that the role of reporters is to ferret out the facts, to question those in power, and to "go to where the silence is, and say something." Goodman uses the concrete example of the Iraq war to ask her audience to grapple with a larger question--what impact does the commercialization and consolidation of the media industry have on journalism and democracy?

Produced by Branda Miller & Hudson Mohawk Indy Media

Amy Goodman began her career in community radio in 1985 at Pacifica Radio’s New York Station, WBAI. She produced WBAI’s Evening News for 10 years. In 1990 and 1991, along with her colleague Allan Nairn, she produced "Massacre: The Story of East Timor," a multiple award-winning documentary that reported on the US-backed Indonesian occupation of East Timor. In 1996, Amy helped launch Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now!. Two years later, Amy and producer Jeremy Scahill went to Nigeria. Their radio documentary "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship" exposed Chevron’s role in the killing of two Nigerian villagers in the Niger Delta, who were protesting yet another oil spill in their community. That documentary won the George Polk Award, the Golden Reel for Best National Documentary from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and a Project Censored award. She is currently the host of Democracy Now!.

September 12, 2003- World Premiere, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,NY
November 7, 2003- Media Reform Conference - Make the Media, Madison, WI
November 23, 2003- The Arizona Alliance for Peaceful Justice, Tempe, AZ
November 22-24, 2003- Select Media Festival, Chicago, IL
December 5, 2003- Institute for Social Ecology, Plainfield, VT
January 3&6, 2004- Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
January 15-24, 2004- Freedom Cinema Festival, Park City, UT
January 17, 2004- Art In General Video Marathon, New York, NY
January 25-29, 2004- Rotterdam International Film Festival
February 26 2004- Digital Cafe Series, Children's Media Project, Poughkeepsie, NY
February 2004- Resistance Cinema, New York, NY
February 27, 2004- Video on Video, Saratoga Springs, NY
March 20, 2004- Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
May 2004- Media That Matters Film Festival, New York, NY

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