Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, argues that corporate media failed the public during the buildup to the Iraq war and the elections that followed, offering embedded soundbites and access journalism instead of scrutiny. Speaking at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy in March 2004, under the title "Fomenting Democracy," she invokes the campus's own Free Speech Movement as a touchstone for what independent journalism is supposed to do. The talk contrasts network coverage of the war with footage gathered by independent reporters working in Iraq, using the gap between the two to make her case about what gets left out when a handful of companies control the airwaves. Goodman ties her argument to Pacifica Radio's history and to Democracy Now!'s model of unembedded reporting, framing a free press as a check on political power rather than a stenographer for it. The lecture runs as straight argument and evidence, no reenactments, built entirely from Goodman at the podium and the clips she plays.