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
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.”
I loved what she said about Cindy Sheehan. ... I think it's important that she exposed the oil companies' destruction of our planet and how they hire the military to kill village people where they are raping the resources and the people in Nigeria. And she's exposing the oil spills ... and how the Pentagon tried to hide the truth about atomic bombs (and paid a New York Times reporter) to write stories that covered up the radiation sickness,
The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
Beware of mothers who have nothing left to lose.
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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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.