Amy Goodman quotes

[The media] are using a national treasure--that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses. (Amy Goodman)
We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society. View quote
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In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world. View quote
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I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U. S. media is the video war game. View quote
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Go where there is silence and say something. View quote
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Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful. View quote
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Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do. View quote
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Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations. View quote
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War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. View quote
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But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it - everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' - you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?' View quote
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We have a decision to make every hour of every day, and that is whether to represent the sword or the shield. Democracy now. (Amy Goodman)
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government. View quote
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I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track. View quote
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A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings. View quote
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The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change. View quote
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If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. View quote
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We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs. View quote
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During an Iraqi protest of the US invasion ABC's "Peter Jennings said to Chris Cuomo, "What are they doing out there? What are they saying?" And Cuomo said, "Well, they have these signs that say 'No Blood for Oil,' but when you ask them what that means, they seem very confused. I don't think they know why they're out here." I guess they got caught in a traffic jam. Why not have Peter Jennings, instead of asking someone who clearly doesn't understand why they're out there, invite one of them into the studio, and have a discussion like he does with the generals? View quote
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I see the media as a huge kitchen table that stretches across the globe, that we all sit around and debate and discuss the most important issues of the day, War and peace, life and death. Anything less than that is a disservice to a democratic society. View quote
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The United States is on pace to spend over $7 trillion over the next ten years for the Pentagon. To put that number in perspective, the U.S. spends more each year on the military than China, Russia, India, the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, South Korea and Australia combined. While Republicans and Democrats are in sharp disagreements over the much smaller Build Back Better legislation, there is largely a bipartisan consensus when it comes to the military budget and foreign military intervention... View quote
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In 1981, the KKK's Grand Wizard claimed that his greatest act "was engineering the bombing of a left-wing radio station," because he understood how dangerous Pacifica was. (Amy Goodman)
Why has Democracy Now! grown so quickly? Because of the deafening silence in the mainstream media around the issues-and the people that matter most. People are now confronting the most important issues of the millennium: war and peace, life and death. Yet who is shaping the discourse? Generals, corporate executives, and government officials. View quote
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If you are opposed to war, you are not a fringe minority. You are not a silent majority. You are part of a silenced majority. Silenced by the mainstream media. View quote
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imagine if the U.S. media showed uncensored, hellish images of war-even for one week. What impact would that have? I think we would be able to abolish war. View quote
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When George W. Bush and his foot soldiers can't build an airtight legal case, suspicion and xenophobia will suffice. View quote
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