"All Governments Lie" is directed by Vancouver-based film maker and journalist Fred Peabody, and produced by Peter Raymont, Toronto’s award winning White Pines Pictures fame. These two Canadians reached across the border to find the best investigative reporters in the United States who followed the principles of I.F. Stone, Washington D C feisty and indefatgble one man wrecking ball, a legend in investigative reporting—who combed through the government’s own records to expose falsehoods surrounding some of the biggest stories of his generation from the 1950s through the 1970s. Based on the book, All Governments Lies: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone by Myra MacPherson, thiis film rightly concentrates on adversarial journalists who operate in Stone’s spirit–Amy Goodman of Democracy Now., Matt Taibbi of the Rolling Stone, Jeremy Scahill, Glen Greenwald and Jeff Cohen, media critic and also a producer of the documentary. There are both chilling and hilarious scenes of mainstream fawning and shallowness. One clip shows a famous TV commentator cutting away from an interview for a Breaking News bulletin—something about teen idol singer Justin Beiber.
