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People-Powered Journalism
With 20 years of hindsight, to many the U.S. war in Afghanistan looks tragically ill-conceived. But in the wake of 9/11, critics of the invasion, when they were heard at all, were regarded as naïve, even un-American. Amy Goodman ’84, host of the independent TV and radio news hour Democracy Now!, was one of the earliest journalists to focus on the human toll of the war. In January , the show hosted a dialogue between Masuda Sultan, an Afghan-American woman whose family members had recently been killed by U.S. bombing, and Rita Lasar, an anti-war activist who lost her brother in the 9/11 attacks. President George W. Bush invoked her brother’s heroism—he had stayed in the World Trade Center to help his quadriplegic friend—in a speech given after the attacks. “Rita Lasar realized at that moment her brother would be used to justify an attack on Afghanistan,” Goodman recalls. “And she said, ‘Not in my name. Not in my brother’s name.’” The interview was one of the most memorable—and prophetic—moments in Democracy Now’s history, and it reflects what Goodman sees as media’s highest purpose. “It’s that kind of dialogue that will save the world,” she insists.
In , the idea of a live daily news show might seem old-fashioned. But Democracy Now!, a scrap
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Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America
In Amy Goodman began hosting a show on Pacifica Radio called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues and movements that are too often ignored by the corporate media. Today Democracy Now! is the largest public media collaboration in the US, broadcasting on over public television and radio stations around the world, with millions accessing it online at Now Amy, along with her journalist brother, David and co-author Denis Moynihan, share stories of the heroes—the whistleblowers, the organizers, the protesters—who have brought about remarkable change.
Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America looks at the powerful movements and charismatic leaders who are re-shaping our world. Goodman takes the reader along as she goes to where the silence is, bringing out voices from the streets of Ferguson, to Staten Island, Wall Street, South Carolina to East Timor—and other places where people are rising up to demand justice. Democracy Now! is the modern day underground railroad of information, bringing stories from the grassroots to a global audience.
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