Thursday, August 12, 2005 at 6 PM

College Avenue Library

4180 N. College Avenue 

No charge.  Discussion following.

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 casualties 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?
IIndependent Media In A Time Of War is a hard-hitting documentary by the Hudson Mohawk IIndependent Media Center, and Goodman's lecture is illustrated by clips of mainstream media juxtaposed with rare footage from independent reporters in Iraq. Aside from being a must-see documentary, the making of this video itself -- with shifts of volunteers at one woman's home -- is a testimony to the power of collaboration.

2004 Winner, Hometown Video Festival, Alliance for Community Media.

Presented by Public Access of Indianapolis, as part of its New Citizenship Watch Series.
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