| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, 35 min.) |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Performer |
Featuring Amy Goodman. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2003. |
| Summary |
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 causalities 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? |
| Audience |
Grade 9+ |
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Higher education. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Mass media and the war.
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Iraq -- Military relations -- United States -- Press coverage.
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Iraq -- Social conditions -- Press coverage.
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United States -- Military policy -- Press coverage.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Buchen, Charlotte.
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Goodman, Amy.
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High, Kathryn.
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Kay, James.
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Lane, Penny.
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Lynn, Andrew.
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Malouf, Jill.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Democracy now! (Radio program) |
| In: |
Media Education Foundation Collection njcore00000000080 |
| Music No. |
1081553 Kanopy |
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