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Amy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. Her investigative journalism career includes coverage of the East Timor independence movement and Chevron Corporation's role in Nigeria. Since 1996, she has been the main host of Democracy Now!, a progressive 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 independent media".

In 2012, Goodman received the Gandhi Peace Award for a "significant contribution to the promotion of an enduring international peace". She is the author of six books, including the 2012 The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope, and the 2016 Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America. In 2016, she was criminally charged in connection with her coverage of protests of the Dakota Access pipeline. The charges, which were condemned by the Committee to Protect Journalists, were dismissed on October 17, 2016.She was awarded the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard's Nieman Foundation in 2014. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. April 1957
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Famous Amy Goodman Quotes

“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.”

Amy Goodman

The Exception to the Rulers written with David Goodman

“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.”

Amy Goodman

“Go to where the silence is and say something.”

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.”

Amy Goodman

The Exception to the Rulers written with David Goodman

“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 Exception to the Rulers written with David Goodman

“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?”

Amy Goodman

Independent Media in a Time of War http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id490.html.

“In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.”

Amy Goodman

Whom the Bell's Palsy Tolls http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071030_for_whom_the_bells_palsy_tolls/For (referring to her fall 2007 bout of Bell's Palsy).

“[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

2008 Winter Soldier Testimony http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier/testimony/aims-global-war-terror-political-legal-and-economic-context-iraq-and-afghan-0.

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