Amy Goodman Quotes

#1. The media - stenographers to power.

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

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#3. [The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

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#4. 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.

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#5. People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

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#6. 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 of listener-powered community radio.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. Go where there is silence and say something.

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#10. [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.

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#11. 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?'

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#12. 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 to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

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#13. 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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#14. In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

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#15. As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.

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#16. 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.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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 from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes ... reach the light of day?

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

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

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#22. 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.

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#23. Go to where the silence is and say something.

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#24. 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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