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Amy Goodman (1957 - ) Amy Goodman, born on this day in 1957, is an American journalist, investigative reporter, and author who co-founded the news program Democracy Now!, which does not accept... (stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)
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Amy Goodman (1957 - )

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Amy Goodman, born on this day in 1957, is an American journalist, investigative reporter, and author who co-founded the news program Democracy Now!, which does not accept corporate funding.

Goodman's investigative journalism work is international in scope, including coverage of the East Timor independence movement and Chevron Corporation's complicity in violence in Nigeria; Chevron assisted the Nigerian Army in a violent conflict with villagers who had seized oil rigs to protest environmental pollution.

Goodman has also been arrested when covering anti-war protests at the RNC and charged with rioting for her coverage on attacks of Dakota Pipeline Access protesters. Goodman and her team captured footage that showed security personnel pepper-spraying and siccing attack dogs on demonstrators.

After the footage aired, North Dakota state prosecutor Ladd Erickson charged her with criminal trespass and, later, rioting. Both charges were dismissed in court.

Since 1996, Goodman has been the main host of Democracy Now!, a progressive 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".

"Go to where the silence is and say something."

- Amy Goodman

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[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 weeks ago

Legend, goat, and unequivocally without peers in today's media landscape.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Is that a fucking joke?

Scahill interned with her and started Intercept and dropsite. There's countless other examples. She does great work, and the US also has countless independent media outlets like DN! (albeit more in print than video)

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 25 points 3 weeks ago

Wow I thought this was an announcement that she died. Glad that’s not the case

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah this post scared me. Putting a birth date in there is dangerous.

[-] clonedhuman@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

A national treasure.

I hope they don't kill her.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Amy Greatwoman

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nah. She’s a reactionary. Helps spread a lot of propaganda for the US military. Wants to maintain her own privilege, and platforms voices who do the same.

Very far left for a liberal, but still a liberal.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

she's antiwar. what military propaganda has she spread??

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

She’s been working to manufacture consent for NATO operations for at least a decade now.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

i have never seen any such thing. can you point to something?

[-] hankskyjames777@thebrainbin.org 11 points 3 weeks ago
[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

i'm open to being wrong, but i always thought she was a (kind of) boring pacifist.

if i'm wrong, and she's been pushing pro-military propaganda, that's insidious, and i'd like very much to be able to support such a claim before believing (and spreading) it.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Surph_ninja is wrong. (edited for clarity)

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

can you provide some evidence?

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh shoot. I thought I was responding to the surph_ninja guy. Super sorry!

[-] hankskyjames777@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

I simply say you're not. Look at his replies in the post in his profile, you know what he did just for the background

[-] hankskyjames777@thebrainbin.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Tell me you're a Tankie without telling me you're a Tankie

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Got another pro-war liberal right here. 👆

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

Tell me you've never watched her show without saying you've never watched her show.

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I grew disillusioned with her precisely because I watched her show so much. How else would I know about her? Not exactly a well known person in most circles.

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