Amy Goodman delivered a blistering keynote address at the Solar Living Institute's SolFest 2007. Link TV will air this speech as part of its special broadcast, "Media in a Time of War", beginning at 8pm ET, 5pm PT, on Saturday, September 29th.

She says that U.S. journalists have abdicated their role as skeptics and critics, cozying up to power rather than challenging it. She touches on subjects as diverse as the American Psychological Association's weak stance towards psychologists aiding the military in using torture, President Bush's use of signing statements, Carlos Arredondo's moving acts of protest, and the importance of hope through activism.

The broadcast will be hosted by veteran journalist Robert Scheer, who was ousted from the LA Times by the Tribune company in 2005 because of his antiwar views. Here's what Robert Scheer wrote about his firing in the Huffington Post:

"The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I wrote. I assume that mostly refers to my exposing the lies used by President Bush to justify the invasion of Iraq. Fortunately sixty percent of Americans now get the point but only after tens of thousand of Americans and Iraqis have been killed and maimed as the carnage spirals out of control. My only regret is that my pen was not sharper and my words tougher."

Scheer will be joined by media critic Norman Solomon, who appears with actor Sean Penn in the film "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death." We'll also be broadcasting an extended clip of that film, so don't miss it!

Find out more about this broadcast - including air times and dates - here:
http://www.linktv.org/programs/special_mediawar