Amy Goodman Quotes

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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.
• 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…
• In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track
• While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.
• The Pacifica Network is a vital cornerstone of our independent media landscape that depends on your financial support. Please donate today to safeguard the future…
• The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
• War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
• We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.
• Go to where the silence is and say something.
• 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…
• 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…

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