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
The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
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.
The media—stenographers to power.
Go where there is silence and say something.
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.
[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.
Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes...reach the light of day?
People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.
Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.
Go to where the silence is and say something.
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.
Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.
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.