It wasn't lost on us that Democracy Now was founded in 1996, the same year as the Telecommunications Act, the same year that Fox News went on the air.

And, you know, Amy has been sounding the alarm about the dangers of media consolidation all this time.

And I don't know that we were listening. Hello and welcome back to the Directors' Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, directors Carl Deal and Tia Lesson examine independent investigative journalist Amy Goodman and her work on the news

program Democracy Now. In their documentary, Steal this story please. Scrained as part of the DGA's

documentary series, the film follows Goodman as she becomes a leader in the movement for independent

media. Set against some of the most consequential voices of our time,

Goodman works to amplify voices excluded from the mainstream, and faces off against forces trying

to silence her. In addition to steal this story, Dealin's other directorial credits include

the documentaries Trouble the Water and Citizen Coke.

Lesson's filmography also includes the documentaries behind the labels and the Janes, co-directed with Emma Pildas.

Following the documentary series screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles,

Dealin, joined by the subject of their film Amy Goodman, spoke with director

Andy Tomoner about filming, steal this story, please.

Listen on for their conversation.

How pumped are we? What a treat, huh? Where are we going to go strike? We have to go do

something right now. Right now. Right now. General strike. Yeah. First of all, you know, ever since I saw

this film at the Palm Springs Film Festival, I've been thinking about it and thinking about you.

And then I got to go on your show, which was amazing.

But you've changed the ending since we saw it.

And I think it's a very important update.

Please tell me what inspired that and what's the process been and what just starting with you

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