Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodmanis an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. Goodman's investigative journalism career includes coverage of the East Timor independence movement and Chevron Corporation's role in Nigeria. Since 1996, Goodman has hosted Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the Internet. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Thomas Merton Award in 2004, a Right Livelihood Award in 2008, and an Izzy Award in 2009 for "special achievement in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth13 April 1957
CityBay Shore, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Beware of mothers who have nothing left to lose.
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.
The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, “If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we’re finding for conflict whether there’s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that’s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.”
In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.
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?'
I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track
We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.
As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.
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.
[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.
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.
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
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