Amy Goodman Quotes

• The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

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• If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

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• War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

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• 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.

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• Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

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• I’ve learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says ‘That’s ridiculous’ you’re probably on the right track.

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Birth:	13th April, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Amy Goodman was born in Washington, D.C.  Her father, George Goodman, was an ophthalmologist and her mother, Dorothy, a social worker. She is 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 independent media". In 2012, Goodman received the Gandhi Peace Award for a "significant contribution to the promotion of an enduring international peace". Goodman is the author of five books, including the 2012 The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope.

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