Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi.
Cast
I. F. Stone
Self - Investigative journalist (archive footage)
Chris Hedges
Self - Former correspondent, The New York Times
Leslie Moonves
Self, president of CBS (voice) (archive footage)
Jeff Cohen
Self, founding director, Park Center for Independent Media
Matt Taibbi
Self - Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone magazine
John Carlos Frey
Self - Independent journalist
Colin Powell
Self (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger
Self (archive footage)
Ralph Nader
Self, author and political activist
Amy Goodman
Self, host and executive producer, Democracy Now!
Jeremy Scahill
Self, co-founder, The Intercept
Erin McLaughlin
Self, reporter, CNN (archive footage)
Glenn Greenwald
Self, co-founder, The Intercept
Edward Snowden
Self (archive footage)
Laura Poitras
Self, co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
Carl Bernstein
Self - Investigative Journalist - Co-author, All the President's Men
Noam Chomsky
Self - Professor Emeritus, MIT
Nermeen Shaikh
Self - Senior producer and co-host - Democracy Now!