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" Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative, and probing analysis."— Noam Chomsky Amy Goodman , award-winning host of the daily internationally broadcast radio and television program Democracy Now! , breaks through the corporate media's lies,... read more
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- Clinton: Add a description of this character.
- Barack Obama
- George Bush
- Kucinich
- John Mccain
- Saro-wiwa
- Dobbs
- Baucus
- Morales
- Pete Seeger
- Davis
- Roeder
- George W. Bush
- Belafonte
- Lennon
- Mukasey
- Ralph Nader
- Jeffrey
- Gates
- Batiste
- Carlos
- John Yoo
- Kochiyama
- Bybee
- Pinochet
- Watada
- Malcolm
- Bell
- Dick Cheney
- Schapiro
- Molly
- Ellsberg
- Zinn
- Terkel
- Kaptur
- Dilawar
- Potter
- Moore
- Gibney
- Martin
- Iglesias
- Dr. King
- Harry
- Brad
- Russ Feingold
- Nataline Sarkisyan: California teenager denied coverage for a liver transplant by CIGNA resulting in her death.
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“You can learn more of the truth about Washington and the world from one week of Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! than from a month of Sunday morning talk shows. Make that a year of Sunday talk shows. That's because Amy, as you will discover on every page of this book, knows the critical question for journalists is how close they are to the truth, not how close they are to power.”
from the Foreword by Bill Moyers
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.”
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Osama bin Laden got his start with the help of the CIA-funded Afghan operation.
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It is the responsibility of journalists to go where the silence is, to seek out news and people who are ignored, to accurately and clearly report on the issues—issues that the corporate, for-profit media often distort, if they cover them at all.
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Money is now considered the single most important factor in our electoral process. Ideas and issues take a backseat to the bottom line. This prostitution of our electoral process has one key culprit: television advertising.
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Single-payer reduces the administrative costs and removes the profit that insurance companies add to health care delivery. Single-payer solutions, however, get almost no space in the debate.
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The media system in the United States is too highly concentrated and serves not the public interest but rather the interests of moguls like Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone, who controls CBS/Viacom.
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The U.S. auto giants are collapsing in part due to extraordinary health care expenses, while they are competing with companies in countries that provide universal health care.
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We have allowed food to be transformed from something that nourishes people and provides them with secure livelihoods into a commodity for speculation and bargaining.” The report states, “The amount of speculative money in commodities futures … was less than $5 billion in 2000. Last year, it ballooned to roughly $175 billion.”
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At the core of the problem with U.S. presidential debates is that they are run by a private corporation, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), founded in 1987 by the Republican and Democratic parties.
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- United States
- Iraq
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- Washington
- New York City
- America
- Israel
- Vermont
- Iran
- White House
- Canada
- Burma
- D.c.
- Guantánamo
- Spain
- Estonia
- Colombia
- Denver
- Congo
- St. Paul
- Utah
- New Mexico
- Chile
- Ohio
- Wall Street
- California
- Baghdad
- Nigeria
- Georgia
- Sweden
- Vietnam
- Texas
- Iowa
- Minnesota
- Middle East
- Florida
- China
- Tennessee
- Bolivia
- Britain
- Honduras
- Syria
- Chicago
- Virginia
- Selma
- Peru
First Sentence edit
"My goal as a journalist is to break the sound barrier, to expand the debate, to cut through the static and bring forth voices that are shut out."
Table of Contents edit
Foreword by Bill Moyers
Introduction: Beyond the Nine-Second Sound Bite
I.War
II.Climate Change
III.Torture
IV.Health Care
V.Global Economic Meltdown
VI.Media
VII.News from the Unreported World
VIII.Grassroots Activism
IX.Elections
X.Obama
XI.Luminaries
Acknowledgments
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Amy Goodman (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Bill D. Moyers (Foreword)
- Denis Moynihan (Editor)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 1, 2009
ISBN: 978-1931859-99-8
Page Count: 380
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 1, 2009
ISBN: 978-1931859-99-8
Page Count: 380
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- Dewey: 973.931
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