On her birthday, Amy Goodman sat down with KQED’s Mina Kim to talk corporate media consolidation, the new documentary Steal This Story, Please! about her career, and why she believes the stakes have never been higher. About war Goodman said, “that is exactly the time, by the way, when we need an independent media. There’s no more serious decision than going to war, when we need the media not to circle the wagons around the White House, but to ask the serious questions.”

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About Steal This Story, Please!

Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions – as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?

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