Toronto Globe and Mail writer on who should be "the real celebrities"

The Globe and Mail is often described as The New York Times of Canada. In this column, a Globe and Mail writer covering the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) says it would be great if the journalists and critics in the documentary All Governments Lie (premiering at TIFF) were considered "the real celebrities" -- as opposed to the Hollywood stars striding across TIFF's red carpet. (FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm co-executive producer of All Governments Lie.)

. . .It’d sure be swell if people like Goodman–or Jeremy Scahill, or Glenn Greenwald, or John Carlos Frey, or Matt Taibbi, or Noam Chomsky, or any of the other fearless talking heads that pop up to speak harsh truth to power in All Governments Lie–were the real celebrities. It’s great that TIFF hosts these events, precisely because they seem to fly glaringly in the face of the festival’s general M.O. of uninterrupted pomp, scattered with a little circumstance.