CUNY TV's restoring of the classic public television program, "Day at Night", which aired from 1973-1974. In this episode, host James Day talks with journalist I.F. Stone as they discuss investigative journalism, politics in the U.S. and corruption in the government. Mr. Stone discusses his experiences with the institutions of the media, the military and the government and his beliefs on how each should be regulated.
CUNY TV is proud to re-broadcast newly digitized episodes of DAY AT NIGHT, the popular public television series hosted by the late James Day. Day was a true pioneer of public television: co-founder of KQED in San Francisco, president of WNET upon the merger of National Educational Television (NET) and television station WNDT/Channel 13, and most recently, Chairman of the CUNY TV Advisory Board. The series features fascinating interviews with notable cultural and political figures conducted in the mid 1970's. (Taped:04/05/74)
Watch more at www.cuny.tv/series/dayatnight
listen to this man and look at the main stream media in Ameican today -2012. such a shame
btw- YT “war made easy” good luck from the UK “/
in a word: wow
amaaazing…a legend to all true reporters……you see you tell…..
This was a very brilliant & independent mind. 30+ years later: we are now on the brink of a merger between 1984 and BRAVE NEW WORLD ORDER. … some people foresaw it long ago, … and did what they could to resist the evil pull of the will to power that brought here: here to the brink.
He’s supposed heavyweight but he sounds like a complete lightweight to me.
America is a democracy? That’s what idiots say. America is a Constitutional Republic… the OPPOSITE of a democracy. Not impressed. No wonder America is now a dead rotting corpse… even then, it’s intellectuals were socialist morons.
he’s hardly a socialist in the manner of the bolshevik reprise of today that would prefer to throw piss at lauren southern, and punch “nazis” who now include three percenters…while using the man who died for freedom and embodied the battle hymn of the republic as a mascot….”freedom for lies”, he defends freedom in a manner that’s decidedly un-Marxlike; if you listen to what he’s saying his defense of the bolsheviks would likely have been a defense of an entirely different group today. he’s an absolutist for freedom particularly the first amendment and makes no bones about it; put him in perspective of his era. this is not 2017; it’s 1974 and the entire landscape was different in US politics and the world. his defense of the times, etc, is based on that time not the present; the concerns he had then, would likely be with the times now; in life, he frequently conflicted with them. i believe now, he would have a different position on smaller papers. his positions on timeless freedoms are what set the metric i estimate from and judge the man by…it’s freedom without exception i seek, socialism is not my agenda…agree that the man is no political conservative, i do, but, i also don’t consider him an enemy of freedom as the socialist. he’s interested in his agenda being advanced with respect for freedom and democracy not imposed through authoritarian nanny stating….he’s like the polar opposite of the multicultural left/neoliberal right political garbage fire we’re presented with today…i don’t mean any offense, i agree with your position as constiutionalist in a republic entirely, but i’d also urge you to reconsider stone in light of his time, tl;dr it’s often thrown down that the democrats were pro slavery in the civil war, the root of my suggestion is that his positions on media and some statements are on the surface difficult to get by, but it’s due to the 40 years of time in which there has been a sea change that’s similarly reversed some of these positions and the revolution in communication put about by the internet, which addresses most of his concerns deftly. mostly he worries about accessibility of information and accepts the monopoly of the major press as necessary to disseminate. which is not the case in this time…the fact he’s read marx and kropotkin, is as notable as his reference to twain..especially considering what he actually practices which demonstrates a respect for natural rights that defies marx and socialism…anyhow…he’s also for these reasons good to be familiar with when arguing those with socialist or bolshevik leanings, particularly those who denounce freedom of speech or insinuate anyone who counters them is a fascist; countering them with Stone is nearly a guaranteed shutdown. another notable quote “as soon as you’ve been invited to lunch with the secretary of state, you’re sunk [as a journalist]”. cheers
another quality he has that many of the young communist league of today lack…he’s honest. that carries with me; most of the bolsheviks now will never admit their authoritarian bent preferring to call it something else i’m avoiding invoking out of low tolerance for cognitive dissonance ensuing from their set, i don’t begrudge him the freedom he fought uphill against the same progressives although in a different time to champion…rather i wish he was here to temper their dishonesty and contempt for freedom today. the guy would not be quiet right now, i guarantee you that…and again, i bet he’d be the one they threw the piss at.
Its clear from the evidence that Stone was INDEED a Soviet agent (The Venona Secrets,Herb Romerstein &co-author Eric Brandel).
Retired KGB General Oleg Kalugin stated flatly He(Stone) was a KGB agent since 1938
That has been debunked in many places
Wonderful program. Thank you for sharing this interview with Stone.
thank you.
Did Stone ever write about libel and slander and if he felt that they should be held in the protection of the First Amendment?
“freedom for lies”, without it your freedom of speech is nothing related to freedom. he was extremely blunt with his view on the absolute nature of the amendment. if i recall correctly it’s something he expounds on in this interview. in those exact words when pressed by the interviewer
I found nothing about the book “Underground to Palestine” in Google. Nothing about it.
+Diogo Catalano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_to_Palestine
http://www.ifstone.org/underground.php
+Diogo Catalano How about The Hidden History of the Korean War?
11:15 the bottom-line of America’s issue
Wow, Izzy would have sobbed in his beer if he had witnessed the media meltdown of 1998-2004.
The first journalist I really read. A great man.
the Head of State idea is a little screwy, we should have a politboro? We can impeach a president
For those of you who might not know the name, Watch this documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9qZ5jE_yMw He was IF Stone before IF Stone Seldes started a 4 page paper in 1940. He went out of business because of the Red Scare. Stone started his paper a few years after. It was similiar to Seldes.