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{{Short description|American TV, radio, and internet news program}} | |||
{{other uses|Democracy Now (disambiguation)}} | |||
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| show_name = Democracy Now! | |||
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| runtime = 60 minutes daily (Monday thru Friday) | |||
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| rec_location = New York City | ||
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| runtime = 60 minutes daily (M-F) | |||
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| presenter = {{ubl|] (principal host)|] (frequent co-host)|Nermeen Shaikh (frequent co-host)}} | |||
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| exec_producer = Amy Goodman | ||
| first_aired = {{Start date and age|1996|02|19}} | |||
| presenter = Amy Goodman<br />] | |||
| last_aired = present | |||
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| opentheme = "Need to Know" by ] | |||
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| country = United States | |||
| website = {{URL|https://www.democracynow.org}} | |||
| language = English | |||
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| first_aired = 1996 | |||
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'''''Democracy Now!''''' is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in ] and hosted by journalists ] (who also acts as the show's executive producer), ],<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |last=Stelter |first=Brian |date=October 23, 2011 |title=A Grass-Roots Newscast Gives a Voice to Struggles |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/business/media/a-grass-roots-newscast-gives-a-voice-to-struggles.html |url-access=registration |access-date=October 23, 2011 |archive-date=June 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625150230/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/business/media/a-grass-roots-newscast-gives-a-voice-to-struggles.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Marmura99"/> and Nermeen Shaikh. The show, which airs live each weekday at 8 a.m. ], is broadcast on the Internet and via more than 1,400 radio and television stations worldwide.<ref name=directory>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/stations |title=Democracy Now Stations |publisher=Democracy Now |access-date=May 7, 2016 |archive-date=September 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927080307/https://www.democracynow.org/stations |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
'''''Democracy Now!''''' is a ] daily ], ] ] program of news, analysis, and opinion. According to ''Democracy Now!'', it is aired by more than 900 ], ], ] and ] networks in ].<ref name="aboutus" /> The award-winning one hour "''War and Peace Report''" is hosted by investigative journalists ]<ref></ref> and ].<ref></ref><ref name = "aboutus"></ref> The program is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, and foundations and does not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting, or government funding.<ref name = "aboutus" /> | |||
The program combines news reporting, interviews, investigative journalism and political commentary from a progressive perspective. It documents social movements, struggles for justice, activism challenging corporate power and operates as a watchdog outfit regarding the effects of ].<ref name="Marmura99"/> ''Democracy Now!'' views as its aim to give activists and the citizenry a platform to debate people from "]".<ref name="Marmura99"/> The show is described as ]<ref name="Fish59">{{harvnb|Fish|2017|p=59.}}</ref> by fans as well as critics, but Goodman rejects that label, calling the program a global newscast that has "people speaking for themselves".<ref name="NYT" /> ''Democracy Now!'' describes its staff as "includ some of this country's leading progressive journalists."<ref>{{cite web |title=Staff |url=https://www.democracynow.org/about/staff |website=Democracy Now! |access-date=March 3, 2018 |archive-date=March 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316233438/https://www.democracynow.org/about/staff |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
==Background== | |||
] firehouse building (a converted firehouse) in New York City's ].]] | |||
Democracy Now Productions, the independent media nonprofit organization that produces ''Democracy Now!,''<ref name="Marmura99"/> is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers,<ref name="GrigoryanSuetzl85">{{cite book|last1=Grigoryan|first1=Nune|last2=Suetzl|first2=Wolfgang|chapter=Hybridized political participation|editor1-last=Atkinson|editor1-first=Joshua D.|editor2-last=Kenix|editor2-first=Linda|title=Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising|year=2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781498584357|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_CYDwAAQBAJ&q=Democracy+Now%21|pages=185|access-date=November 5, 2020|archive-date=October 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231007062332/https://books.google.com/books?id=D_CYDwAAQBAJ&q=Democracy+Now!#v=snippet&q=Democracy%20Now!&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> and foundations such as the ],<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715130954/https://parkfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/1st-quarter-2020-Grants-Awarded.pdf |date=July 15, 2022 }} (PDF), p. 6.</ref> ],<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213081523/https://www.fordfoundation.org/media/1531/ar2004.pdf |date=February 13, 2021 }} (PDF), p. 129.</ref> ],<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231007062333/https://pp-990.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2009_08_PF/36-6062451_990PF_200812.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA266MJEJYTM5WAG5Y%2F20231007%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20231007T062332Z&X-Amz-Expires=1800&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=9722a1caa3811c18a3db52b6acbdcce0936550413d2c1f62167fb491fac6771f |date=October 7, 2023 }} (PDF), p. 148.</ref> and the J.M. Kaplan Fund.<ref>] (June 7, 2013) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805114637/https://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kaplan_Fund |date=August 5, 2020 }} – ]</ref><ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921223113/http://irasilver.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Reading-Foundations-Feldman.pdf |date=September 21, 2020 }} (PDF), pp. 11, 14.</ref> It has over $36 million in assets and about a $10 million annual budget.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Democracy Now Productions (Democracy Now!) |url=https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/democracy-now-productions/ |access-date=March 14, 2023 |website=InfluenceWatch |language=en-US |archive-date=March 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314020543/https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/democracy-now-productions/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Democracy Now!'' does not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting or government funding.<ref name="aboutus">{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/about |title=About Democracy Now |publisher=Democracy Now |access-date=May 7, 2016 |archive-date=January 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116232950/https://www.democracynow.org/about |url-status=live }}</ref> The show has become popular on the internet, and from the late 2010s onward, has been involved in pioneering extensive media cooperation in the public sphere across the US.<ref name="Marmura99"/> | |||
{{quote|"For true democracy to work, people need easy access to independent, diverse sources of news and information."| ''Democracy Now!''<ref name = "aboutus" />}} | |||
== Background == | |||
''Democracy Now!'' was founded in 1996 at ] in New York City by progressive journalists ], ], ], ], and Julie Drizin.<ref name=first_show>{{cite web | url=http://www.democracynow.org/shows/1996/2/19 | title=The First Democracy Now! Show | publisher=Democracy Now! | accessdate=2008-03-05}}</ref> Goodman is the program's principal host, with Juan Gonzalez as frequent co-host.<ref name=about>{{cite web | url=http://www.democracynow.org/about.shtml | title=About Democracy Now! | publisher=Democracy Now! | accessdate=2007-05-28}}</ref> ] is a frequent contributor. The Spanish version includes the daily headlines, as well as a weekly summary of the news and was begun by ] in May 2005. The program focuses on issues its producers consider underreported or ignored by ]. | |||
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''Democracy Now!'', also called ''Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report'', ''Democracy Now Independent Global News'', or ''Democracy News'', was founded on February 19, 1996, at ] in New York City by journalists ], ], ], ], and Julie Drizin.<ref name=first_show>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/shows/1996/2/19 |title=The First Democracy Now! Show |work=Democracy Now! |access-date=March 5, 2008 |archive-date=May 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517134845/https://www.democracynow.org/shows/1996/2/19 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Marmura99"/> It originally aired on five ] stations.<ref name=NYT /> Goodman is the program's principal host, with Juan González and ] as frequent co-hosts.<ref name=aboutus /> ], an ] and co-founding editor for '']'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Staff: Jeremy Scahill |website=The Intercept |url=https://firstlook.org/theintercept/staff/jeremy-scahill/ |access-date=November 14, 2016 |archive-date=February 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140210214405/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/staff/jeremy-scahill/ |url-status=live }}</ref> has been a frequent contributor since 1997.<ref name=NYT /> | |||
The show covered the ] (1999) targeting the ].<ref name="Marmura99"/> | |||
===Syndication=== | |||
] states that ''Democracy Now!'' is the flagship national program of the ] network.<ref></ref> The television simulcast airs on ] stations; on satellite via ] and ], and ] on ].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.democracynow.org/get_involved/satellite | title=Satellite | publisher=Democracy Now! | accessdate=2008-11-17}}</ref> ''Democracy Now!'' is available over the ], as both ] and ]. | |||
''Democracy Now!'' partnered with ] (FSTV) and ] to cover the ].<ref name="Fish98">{{harvnb|Fish|2017|p=98.}}</ref> The event marked a turning point for ''Democracy Now!'', as in addition to its presence on radio, it became a television show.<ref name="Fish109">{{harvnb|Fish|2012|p=109.}}</ref> From then onward, ''Democracy Now!'' has had their content promoted and broadcast on FSTV.<ref name="Fish109118">{{cite thesis|last=Fish|first=Adam|year=2012|title=Reforming the American Public Sphere: The Media Reform Models of Progressive Television Journalists in the Era of Internet Convergence and Neoliberalism.|type=PhD|publisher=University of California|url=https://escholarship.org/content/qt2f79s7kh/qt2f79s7kh.pdf|access-date=February 24, 2020|pages=109, 118|archive-date=February 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225032246/https://escholarship.org/content/qt2f79s7kh/qt2f79s7kh.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
==Awards and reaction== | |||
''Democracy Now!'' began broadcasting on television every weekday shortly after September 11, 2001, and is the only public medium in the U.S. that airs simultaneously on satellite and cable television, radio, and the internet.<ref name=history>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/about/history |title=History & Highlights |work=Democracy Now! |access-date=June 16, 2013 |archive-date=June 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617004036/http://www.democracynow.org/about/history |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
''Democracy Now!'' has been critical of the ] (TPP) trade deal.<ref name="Marmura100">{{harvnb|Marmura|2018|p=100.}}</ref> After data disclosures by the ] organisation ] regarding the TPP in 2010, ''Democracy Now!'' has given a significant media platform and extensively covered them since, and like some other news networks cooperated with its leader ].<ref name="Marmur8799124">{{harvnb|Marmura|2018|pp=87, 99, 124.}}</ref> Coverage of WikiLeaks by ''Democracy Now!'' was sympathetic.<ref name="Marmura99100">{{cite book|last=Marmura|first=Stephen M. E.|title=The WikiLeaks Paradigm: Paradoxes and Revelations|year=2018|publisher=Springer|isbn=9783319971391|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iE1tDwAAQBAJ&q=Democracy+Now%21&pg=PP5|pages=99–100|access-date=November 5, 2020|archive-date=January 19, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119194122/https://books.google.com/books?id=iE1tDwAAQBAJ&q=Democracy+Now!&pg=PP5#v=snippet&q=Democracy%20Now!&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
In 2011, reporter Sharif Abdel Kouddous covered the ] for ''Democracy Now!''.<ref name="Fish170">{{harvnb|Fish|2017|p=170.}}</ref> | |||
On February 19, 2016, ''Democracy Now!'' marked 20 years on the air with an hour-long retrospective look back at "two decades of independent, unembedded news", with highlights chosen from over 5,000 episodes.<ref>{{cite news |title=Democracy Now! Turns 20: A Freewheeling Look Back at Two Decades of Independent, Unembedded News |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/19/democracy_now_turns_20_a_freewheeling |work=Democracy Now! |date=February 19, 2016 |access-date=September 6, 2016 |archive-date=September 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909190601/http://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/19/democracy_now_turns_20_a_freewheeling |url-status=live }}</ref> Amy Goodman also published a book entitled ''Democracy Now!: 20 Years Covering the Movements Changing America'',<ref>{{cite news |title=Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America |url=http://www.democracynow.org/books/democracy_now |access-date=September 6, 2016 |work=Democracy Now! |archive-date=September 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160904124256/http://www.democracynow.org/books/democracy_now |url-status=live }}</ref> and launched a 100-city tour across the United States to mark the 20th anniversary of ''Democracy Now!'', with scheduled broadcasts of the show recorded during her travels.<ref>{{cite news |title=Amy Goodman on the Road: Updates on Democracy Now's 20th Anniversary 100-City Tour |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/4/13/amy_goodman_on_the_road_updates |work=Democracy Now! |date=April 13, 2016 |access-date=September 6, 2016 |archive-date=December 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219171957/https://www.democracynow.org/2016/4/13/amy_goodman_on_the_road_updates |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
=== Studios === | |||
] firehouse building (a converted firehouse) in New York City's ].]] | |||
''Democracy Now!'' began as a radio program broadcast from the studios of ], a local ] station in New York City. In early September 2001, amid a months-long debate over the mission and management of Pacifica, ''Democracy Now!'' was forced out of the WBAI studios. Goodman took the program to the ] located in a converted firehouse building in New York City's ], where the program began to be televised.<ref name="Common Dreams">{{cite web |last1=Ratner |first1=Lizzy |title=Amy Goodman's 'Empire' How a prospective biochemist became a muckraker and champion of media reform |url=http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0506-22.htm |website=commondreams.org |access-date=July 23, 2014 |date=May 6, 2005 |archive-date=May 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508002429/http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0506-22.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez">{{cite web |title=Farewell to the Firehouse: After 8 Years at Downtown Community Television Landmark, Democracy Now! Moves to New Home |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/firehouse |work=Democracy Now! |access-date=February 8, 2014 |author=Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez |date=November 13, 2009 |archive-date=February 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207182842/http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/firehouse |url-status=live }}</ref> Only a few days later on September 11, 2001 ''Democracy Now!'' was the closest national broadcast to ]. On that day Goodman and colleagues continued reporting beyond their scheduled hour-long time slot in what became an eight-hour marathon broadcast. Following ], in addition to radio and television, ''Democracy Now!'' expanded their multimedia reach to include ], ], Internet, and ].<ref name="Common Dreams" /> | |||
In November 2009, ''Democracy Now!'' left their broadcast studio in the converted DCTV firehouse, where they had broadcast for eight years, and moved to a repurposed graphic arts building in the ] of ].<ref name="Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez" /> In 2010, the new 8,500-square-foot<ref>{{cite web |title=Democracy Now! Broadcast Studio Targeting LEED-CI Platinum at 207 West 25th Street |url=http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/2009/07/06/democracy-now-broadcast-studio-targeting-leed-ci-platinum-at-207-west-25th-street/ |publisher=Green Buildings NYC |access-date=February 8, 2014 |date=July 6, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222032513/http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/2009/07/06/democracy-now-broadcast-studio-targeting-leed-ci-platinum-at-207-west-25th-street/ |archive-date=February 22, 2014}}</ref> ''Democracy Now!'' studio became the first radio or television studio in the nation to receive ] certification,<ref>{{cite web |last=Holland |first=Ben |title=Democracy Now! Goes Green |url=http://www.rmi.org/DemocracyNowGoesGreen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208145647/http://www.rmi.org/DemocracyNowGoesGreen |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 8, 2012 |publisher=Rocky Mountain Institute |access-date=February 8, 2014 |date=August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=LEED Certification—Democracy Now! |url=http://www.ers-inc.com/index.php/projects/sustainable-buildings/leed-certification-democracy-now |publisher=Energy Resource Solutions |access-date=February 8, 2014 |year=2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131052916/http://www.ers-inc.com/index.php/projects/sustainable-buildings/leed-certification-democracy-now |archive-date=January 31, 2014}}</ref> the highest rating awarded by the ]. | |||
=== Syndication === | |||
''Democracy Now!'' is the flagship program of the ] network.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wbai.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=406&Itemid=42 |title=WBAI, New York – 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio – Democracy Now! |publisher=WBAI |access-date=October 13, 2014 |archive-date=July 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703170602/https://www.wbai.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=406&Itemid=42 |url-status=live }}</ref> It also airs on several ] member stations. The television simulcast airs on ] and several ] stations; by satellite on ] and ], and ] on ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/get_involved/satellite |title=Satellite |work=Democracy Now! |access-date=November 17, 2008 |archive-date=May 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516233745/https://www.democracynow.org/get_involved/satellite |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Fish6598">{{cite book|last=Fish|first=Adam|title=Technoliberalism and the end of participatory culture in the United States|year=2017|publisher=Springer|isbn=9783319312569|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SdKyDgAAQBAJ&q=Democracy+Now%21|pages=65, 98|access-date=November 5, 2020|archive-date=January 19, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119194032/https://books.google.com/books?id=SdKyDgAAQBAJ&q=Democracy+Now!#v=snippet&q=Democracy%20Now!&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Democracy Now!'' is also available on the Internet as downloadable and ] audio and video.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/15/stream |title=Democracy Now! Listen/Watch Today's Show |work=Democracy Now! |access-date=October 13, 2014 |archive-date=January 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117192136/https://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/15/stream |url-status=live }}</ref> In total, nearly 1,400 television and radio stations broadcast ''Democracy Now!'' worldwide.<ref name="directory" /><ref name="Q&A">{{cite news |last1=Lamb |first1=Brian |title=Q & A with Amy Goodman |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?407176-1/qa-amy-goodman |access-date=September 10, 2016 |agency=C-SPAN |date=March 25, 2016 |quote=in the hallowed halls, they're not in touch |archive-date=July 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709164807/http://www.c-span.org/video/?407176-1/qa-amy-goodman |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
== Awards and reception == | |||
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''Democracy Now!'' and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the ] from ];<ref> |
''Democracy Now!'' and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the ] from ];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kingfeatures.com/2007/03/amy-goodman-wins-gracie-award%C2%AE-from-american-women-in-radio-television/ |title=Amy Goodman Wins Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television |publisher=King Features |access-date=October 13, 2014 |archive-date=November 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120050710/http://kingfeatures.com/2007/03/amy-goodman-wins-gracie-award%C2%AE-from-american-women-in-radio-television/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the ] for its 1998 radio documentary '']: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship'', on the ] and the deaths of two Nigerian villagers protesting an oil spill;<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.liu.edu/About/News/Univ-Ctr-PR/Pre-2008/February/GP-Press-Release-Feb-1999.aspx |title=Long Island University Announces Winners of 1998 George Polk Awards |publisher=Long Island University |access-date=October 13, 2014 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305005505/http://www.liu.edu/About/News/Univ-Ctr-PR/Pre-2008/February/GP-Press-Release-Feb-1999.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> and Goodman with ] won Robert F. Kennedy Memorial's First Prize in International Radio for their 1993 report, ''Massacre: The Story of East Timor'', which involved first-hand coverage of ] during the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rfkmemorial.org/legacyinaction/1993 |title=25th Annual Awards – 1993 |publisher=Robert F Kennedy Memorial |access-date=August 6, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927040958/http://www.rfkmemorial.org/legacyinaction/1993 |archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref> | ||
On October 1, 2008, ] as a recipient of the 2008 ],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rightlivelihood.org/goodman.html |title=Amy Goodman |work=Right Livelihood Award |year=2008 |access-date=April 28, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708050530/http://www.rightlivelihood.org/goodman.html |archive-date=July 8, 2009}}</ref> in connection with her years of work establishing ''Democracy Now!'' and in 2009, she, like her frequent guest ], was awarded the first annual Izzy Award (named after journalist ]) for "special achievement in independent media".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=2646 |title=Glenn Greenwald And Amy Goodman Share Inaugural Izzy Award For Independent Media |access-date=March 12, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305151154/http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=2646 |archive-date=March 5, 2009 |date=April 3, 2009 |website=Ithaca College Office of Media Relations }}</ref> Her co-host Juan González was inducted into the New York chapter of the ]' Hall of Fame on November 19, 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title= List of Hall of Fame Honorees |url=http://www.deadlineclub.org/about-dc/deadline-club-hall-of-fame/list-of-hall-of-fame-honorees |website=Deadline Club |access-date=September 11, 2016 |archive-date=February 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222200927/http://deadlineclub.org/about-dc/deadline-club-hall-of-fame/list-of-hall-of-fame-honorees/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Deadline Club's Hall of Fame |url=http://www.deadlineclub.org/about-dc/deadline-club-hall-of-fame |website=Deadline Club |publisher=NY Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists |access-date=September 11, 2016 |archive-date=February 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222200922/http://deadlineclub.org/about-dc/deadline-club-hall-of-fame/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
On October 1, 2008, ] as a recipient of the 2008 ],<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rightlivelihood.org/goodman.html | title=Amy Goodman | work=Right Livelihood Award | year=2008 | accessdate=2009-04-28}}</ref> often referred to as the "Alternative Nobel Prize",<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rightlivelihood.org/ | title=Right Livelihood Award | accessdate=2009-04-28 }}</ref> in connection with her years of work establishing ''Democracy Now!''. | |||
== 2008 Republican National Convention arrests == | |||
Jason Maoz, senior editor of the '']'', has criticized the program's coverage of ].<ref>Jason Maoz, What's Good About Amy Goodman?, The Jewish Press, Wednesday, March 02 2005. http://www.jewishpress.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=17410</ref> | |||
Three journalists with ''Democracy Now!''—including principal host ], and news producers Nicole Salazar and Sharif Abdel Kouddous—were detained by police during their reporting on the ]s in Saint Paul, Minnesota.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/352466/amy_goodman_others_detained_outside_rnc |title=Amy Goodman, Others Detained Outside RNC |date=September 1, 2008 |work=] |access-date=September 2, 2008 |archive-date=March 26, 2009 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090326173858/http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/352466/amy_goodman_others_detained_outside_rnc |url-status=live }}</ref> Salazar was filming as officers in full ] charged her area. As she yelled "Press!" she was knocked down and told to put her face in the ground while another officer dragged her backward by her leg across the pavement. The video footage of the incident was immediately posted on the Internet, leading to a large public outcry against her arrest. When a second producer, Kouddous, approached, he too was arrested, and charged with a ]. According to a press release by ''Democracy Now!'', Goodman herself was arrested after confronting officers regarding the arrest of her colleagues. The officers had established a line of "crowd control", and ordered Goodman to move back. Goodman claims she was arrested after being pulled through the police line by an officer, and subsequently (as well as Kouddous) had her press credentials for the convention physically stripped from her by a ] agent.<ref name="Q&A" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/09/democracy-now-host-and-produce.html |title=Democracy Now! Host and Producers Arrested at Republican Convention |date=September 1, 2008 |newspaper=] |access-date=June 30, 2013 |archive-date=October 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151023005613/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/09/democracy-now-host-and-produce.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> All were held on charges of "probable cause for riot".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2008/09/democracy_now_host_amy_goodman.shtml |title=Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman arrested at RNC protest |date=September 1, 2008 |work=] |access-date=September 2, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902173612/http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2008/09/democracy_now_host_amy_goodman.shtml |archive-date=September 2, 2008}}</ref> A statement was later released by the city announcing that all "misdemeanor charges for presence at an unlawful assembly for journalists" would be dropped. The felony charges against Salazar and Kouddous were also dropped.<ref name=lawsuit>{{cite news |url=http://www.salon.com/2010/05/05/us_gop_convention_arrests_goodman/ |title=Journalists file lawsuit in GOP convention arrests |first=Steve |last=Karnowski |work=] |agency=] |date=May 5, 2010 |access-date=August 6, 2011 |archive-date=June 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607002021/http://www.salon.com/2010/05/05/us_gop_convention_arrests_goodman/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
Goodman, Salazar, and Kouddous subsequently filed a lawsuit against the cities of ] as well as other defendants.<ref name=lawsuit /> According to Baher Asmy of the ], "ll three plaintiffs that are journalists with ''Democracy Now'' reached a final settlement with the city of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the United States Secret Service, that will resolve the claims that they had against them from unlawful and quite violent arrests." The settlement includes $100,000 in compensation and a promise of police training.<ref name="Q&A" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/10/03/radio-host-wins-settlement-against-twin-cities-police |title=Radio host wins settlement against Twin Cities police |first=Tim |last=Nelson |work=] |date=October 3, 2011 |access-date=January 6, 2012 |archive-date=January 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120204432/http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/10/03/radio-host-wins-settlement-against-twin-cities-police |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
==Notable guests, interviews, and on-air debates== | |||
: '''In alphabetical order''' | |||
== 2016 North Dakota access pipeline protests == | |||
*] and ] — Finkelstein is a frequent guest. This was a much publicised debate about whether the Dershowitz book, ] was plagiarized and inaccurate. Dershowitz has written that he agreed to appear on the show after being told he would debate Noam Chomsky, not Finkelstein.<ref>{{cite news | |||
{{Further|Dakota Access Pipeline protests}} | |||
|url = http://www.tnr.com/article/cambridge-diarist | |||
In September 2016, an arrest warrant for criminal trespass was issued for Amy Goodman after covering for ''Democracy Now!'' the ] during which guards unleashed dogs and pepper spray on protesters in ].<ref name="wdaz">{{cite news |url=http://www.wdaz.com/news/north-dakota/4112656-reporter-who-documented-guard-dogs-charged-trespassing-pipeline-protest |title=Reporter who documented guard dogs charged with trespassing at pipeline protest site |last=Dalrymple |first=Amy |date=September 10, 2016 |publisher=WDAZ |access-date=September 11, 2016 |archive-date=September 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911082501/http://www.wdaz.com/news/north-dakota/4112656-reporter-who-documented-guard-dogs-charged-trespassing-pipeline-protest |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="njtoday">{{cite news |url=http://njtoday.net/2016/09/10/reporter-presidential-candidate-wanted-trespassing-pipeline-protest/ |title=Reporter & presidential candidate wanted for trespassing at pipeline protest |date=September 10, 2016 |work=njtoday.net |access-date=September 11, 2016 |archive-date=July 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729191412/http://njtoday.net/2016/09/10/reporter-presidential-candidate-wanted-trespassing-pipeline-protest/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="mashable">{{cite news |url=http://mashable.com/2016/09/11/amy-goodman-dakota-access-pipeline/ |title=Arrest warrant issued for Amy Goodman after North Dakota protest coverage |last=Bogle |first=Ariel |date=September 11, 2016 |work=Mashable |access-date=September 11, 2016 |archive-date=September 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912060725/http://mashable.com/2016/09/11/amy-goodman-dakota-access-pipeline/ |url-status=live }}</ref> An arrest warrant was reportedly also issued for Green Party presidential candidate ] and her running mate, ].<ref name="wdaz" /><ref name="njtoday" /><ref name="mashable" /> | |||
|title = Taking the Bait | |||
|publisher = The New Republic | |||
|author = Alan Dershowitz | |||
|date = 2007-05-14 | |||
|accessdate = 2007-06-24 | |||
}}</ref> | |||
*], former ] — by Amy Goodman and ], ] and author of ], September 24, 2007.<ref>{{cite news | |||
|url = http://www.democracynow.org/2007/9/24/alan_greenspan_vs_naomi_klein_on | |||
|title = Alan Greenspan vs. Naomi Klein on the Iraq War, Bush’s Tax Cuts, Economic Populism, Crony Capitalism and More | |||
|publisher = Democracy Now! | |||
|author = Amy Goodman | |||
|date = 2007-09-24 | |||
|accessdate = 2008-09-16 | |||
}}<br />{{cite video | |||
| url = http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/sept/video/dnB20070924a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=09:40 | |||
| title = Democracy Now! 9/24/07 | |||
| medium = Video | |||
| format = .RAM | |||
|date = 2007 | |||
| people = Greenspan, Alan; Goodman, Amy; Klein, Naomi | |||
| publisher = Pacifica Radio | |||
| accessdate = 2008-09-16 | |||
}}</ref> In a follow-up interview, ]-winning ] ] and ], based on their October 2007 article in '']'',<ref>{{cite news | |||
|url = http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/iraq_billions200710 | |||
|title = Billions over Baghdad | |||
|publisher = Vanity Fair | |||
|author = Daniel Barlett, James Steele | |||
|date = 2007-10 | |||
|accessdate = 2008-09-16 | |||
}}</ref> call Greenspan "flat wrong" regarding claims by Greenspan in that interview denying Federal Reserve responsibility in the transfer of billions of dollars from the Federal Reserve to Iraq, $9 billion of which the reporters claim has yet to be accounted.<ref name="wrong">{{cite news | |||
|url = http://www.democracynow.org/2007/10/9/mr_greenspan_is_flat_wrong_pulitzer | |||
|title = Mr. Greenspan is Flat Wrong: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists Respond to Alan Greenspan’s Claim that He Didn’t Know about Federal Reserve’s Role in Iraq’s Missing Billions | |||
|publisher = Democracy Now! | |||
|author = Amy Goodman | |||
|date = 2007-10-09 | |||
|accessdate = 2008-09-16 | |||
}}</ref> | |||
*] — Recurring guest; Indian writer, ] activist, and leading figure in the ] movement | |||
*] was interviewed after hours on election day of the ].<ref name="dnowinterview"></ref> The heated interview on the ]'s ] policies, bombing of ], ], ], the ], the ], ], ], and the ] resulted in the outgoing President calling Amy Goodman "hostile and combative." A staffer at the White House press office later criticized Goodman for straying from the topic of getting out the vote and for keeping Clinton on much longer than the two to three minutes agreed. Goodman replied "President Clinton is the most powerful person in the world. He can hang up when he wants to."<ref>"". ''Democracy Now!''. Retrieved 2 January 2011.</ref> | |||
*] — by Amy Goodman; former host of the ] show '']'' and former host of the PBS show '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2007/4/25/legendary_broadcaster_bill_moyers_returns_to |title=Legendary Broadcaster Bill Moyers Returns to Airwaves With Critical Look at How U.S. News Media Helped Bush Admin Sell the Case for War |publisher=Democracynow.org |date= |accessdate=2010-02-09}}</ref> | |||
*] — Regular guest; American actor, ], and ]. | |||
*], Democratic presidential candidate — Interviewed by Goodman and Gonzalez on November 9, 2007.<ref>.</ref> | |||
*] — was a regular guest; ] professor, literary critic and Palestinian activist and intellectual | |||
*] - Interviewed on September 22, 2006; the president of ] talked about his recent speech at the ] in New York where he held up a ] leaf and argued for international drug law reform as well as talked about the nationalization of Bolivia's energy reserves among other topics.<ref>.</ref> Morales was again interviewed on April 23, 2010 after the World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba, Bolivia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/23/bolivian_president_evo_morales_to_president |title=Bolivian President Evo Morales on President Obama: "I Can’t Believe a Black President Can Hold So Much Vengeance Against an Indian President |date=April 23, 2010}}</ref> | |||
* ], 1972 Democratic presidential nominee — Interviewed by Goodman on March 11, 2008 about that year's presidential race and how McGovern's chairmanship of the Democratic Party Reform Commission (1969–70) transformed the nominating process.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/11/fmr_presidential_candidate_george_mcgovern_on |title=Fmr. Presidential Candidate George McGovern on the 2008 Race and How He Helped Transform the Democratic Nominating Process |publisher=Democracynow.org |date= |accessdate=2010-02-09}}</ref> | |||
*] — Frequent guest; US-born writer and ] for the ] and ]. | |||
*] — by Amy Goodman; late historian and activist; author of several books, including ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/1997/10/13/zinn |title=Zinn |publisher=Democracynow.org |date= |accessdate=2010-02-09}}</ref> | |||
*], ] of ] — Interviewed by Amy Goodman in September 2005.<ref>.</ref> | |||
*] — on March 16, 2004, the recently ousted Haitian President accused the United States of kidnapping him and overthrowing the government of ].<ref>.</ref> | |||
*] — Interviewed by Amy Goodman on 10 September 2007; former US ]: author of '']''.<ref name="carter">.</ref> | |||
*] — Recurring guest; ] economics professor, ] winner (2001), and author | |||
*] — Recurring guest; ] economics professor, ] winner (2008), and author | |||
*] — Interviewed<ref name="lori">.</ref> in 1999 in ] by ]; political activist arrested in 1995 and convicted for collaborating with the ], a Peruvian leftist guerrilla organization. It was the first time a journalist was able to interview Berenson inside the prison where she was incarcerated.<ref name="lori"/> | |||
*] — multiple interviews with the ousted president of ]<ref>{{cite web | |||
|url=http://www.democracynow.org/features/honduras_coup | |||
|title=Honduras Coup | |||
|publisher=Democracy Now! | |||
}}</ref> | |||
*] — Regular guest; ] professor, writer & radio host. | |||
*] — Filmmaker, author, political commentator; interviewed on March 10, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/10/this_is_a_class_war_michael |title=Michael Moore Calls for Renewed Pro-Democracy Movement as Anti-Union Bills Approved in Wisconsin and Michigan |publisher=Democracynow.org |date= |accessdate=2010-03-10}}</ref> | |||
* ] — In its first year, Democracy Now! was one of the first national programs to air radio commentaries from the controversial journalist and former ] member, on death row in Pennsylvania for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer. The 1997 decision to air Abu-Jamal's commentaries caused Democracy Now! to lose twelve of its then 36 affiliates.<ref>{{cite news | |||
|title = Pacifica Stations Bolt Over Convicted Killer's Commentary | |||
|publisher = ] | |||
|author = Marc Fisher | |||
|date = 1997-02-25}}</ref> | |||
*] — Author, public intellectual, and critic of globalization and corporate capitalism. Interviewed on March 9, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/9/naomi_klein_on_anti_union_bills |title=Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills and Shock Doctrine American-Style: "This is a Frontal Assault on Democracy, a Corporate Coup D'Etat" |publisher=Democracynow.org |date= |accessdate=2010-03-09}}</ref> | |||
*] — A regularly interviewed guest; ] linguistics professor, political analyst, and author. | |||
*] — A regularly interviewed guest; consumer activist, corporate critic, author, and former presidential candidate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/21/ralph_nader_on_the_g20_healthcare |title=Ralph Nader on the G-20, Healthcare Reform, Mideast Talks and His First Work of Fiction, "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" |publisher=Democracynow.org |date= |accessdate=2010-02-09}}</ref> | |||
*] — President of the Cuban National Assembly by Amy Goodman. | |||
*] — Frequent guest; prominent British journalist who currently serves as a Middle East correspondent for '']''. | |||
*] — Frequent guest; award winning ] journalist and film-maker. | |||
*] — by Amy Goodman; former ] who disputed the Bush administration's claims about ] in Iraq.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2006/10/16/scott_ritter_on_target_iran_the |title=Scott Ritter on "Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change" |publisher=Democracynow.org |date= |accessdate=2010-02-09}}</ref> | |||
*] and ] — took opposing sides in two debates over the ], on December 4, 2003<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/04/1523254&mode=thread&tid=25 |title=Tariq Ali vs. Christopher Hitchens on the Occupation of Iraq: Postponed Liberation or Recolonisation? |publisher=Democracynow.org |date= |accessdate=2010-02-09}}</ref> and October 12, 2004.<ref>.</ref> | |||
*] — Musician, peace activist and widow of ]. by Amy Goodman on October 16, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2007/10/16/exclusive_yoko_ono_on_the_new |title=EXCLUSIVE: Yoko Ono on the New Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, Art & Politics, the Peace Movement, Government Surveillance and the Murder of John Lennon |publisher=Democracynow.org |date= |accessdate=2010-02-09}}</ref> | |||
Goodman elected to turn herself in. Three days before the court date, the charges were increased to engaging in a riot, which carried a penalty of up to 30 days in jail and a $1,500 fine.<ref name="NYT-Dismissed">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/us/judge-rejects-riot-charge-against-amy-goodman-of-democracy-now-over-pipeline-protest.html |title=Judge Rejects Riot Charge Against Amy Goodman of 'Democracy Now' Over Pipeline Protest |last=McDannoct |first=Erin |date=October 17, 2016 |work=] |access-date=October 26, 2016 |archive-date=October 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020104841/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/us/judge-rejects-riot-charge-against-amy-goodman-of-democracy-now-over-pipeline-protest.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On October 17, 2016, the judge quickly dismissed the charges, but Morton County prosecutors insisted the case is still open and that they may pursue further charges in the future.<ref name="NYT-Dismissed" /><ref name="cite-bundle">* {{cite news |url=http://bismarcktribune.com/newsa/state-and-regional/defense-attorney-questions-prosecutor-in-amy-goodman-case/article_dc5fb820-4ed4-5a77-b8fb-6a210875e8dc.html |title=Protest winds down at Morton County Courthouse |last=Grueskin |first=Caroline |date=October 17, 2016 |work=Bismarck Tribune |access-date=October 17, 2016 |archive-date=August 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827205919/http://bismarcktribune.com/newsa/state-and-regional/defense-attorney-questions-prosecutor-in-amy-goodman-case/article_dc5fb820-4ed4-5a77-b8fb-6a210875e8dc.html |url-status=live }} | |||
===2008 GOP National Convention arrests === | |||
* {{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/democracy-now-reporter-amy-goodman-charged-with-rioting-after-filming-attack-on-protesters-north-a7364821.html |title=Democracy Now! reporter Amy Goodman 'rioting' charges rejected by judge after filming attack on Native American protesters |last1=Buncombe |first1=Andrew |last2=Garcia |first2=Feliks |date=October 17, 2016 |work=The Independent |access-date=October 17, 2016 |archive-date=October 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018151717/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/democracy-now-reporter-amy-goodman-charged-with-rioting-after-filming-attack-on-protesters-north-a7364821.html |url-status=live }} | |||
Three journalists with ''Democracy Now!''—including principal host ], and news producers Nicole Salazar and Sharif Abdel Kouddous —were detained by police during their reporting on the ].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/352466/amy_goodman_others_detained_outside_rnc|title=Amy Goodman, Others Detained Outside RNC |date=September 1, 2008|work=]|accessdate=2008-09-02}}</ref> Salazar was filming as officers in full ] charged her area. As she audibly yelled "Press!" she was knocked down and told to put her face in the ground while another officer dragged her backward by her leg across the pavement. The video footage of the incident was immediately posted on the internet, leading to a large public outcry against her arrest. When a second producer, Kouddous, approached, also clearly marked as a member of the press, he too was arrested, assaulted by the police and charged with a ]. According to a press release by ''Democracy Now!'', Goodman herself was arrested after confronting officers regarding the arrest of her colleagues. The officers had established a line of "crowd control," and ordered Goodman to move back. She was arrested after being pulled through the police line by an officer, and subsequently (as well as Kouddous) had her press credentials for the convention physically stripped from her by a ] agent.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2008/9/1/amy_goodman_and_two_democracy_now_producers_unlawfully_arrested_at_the_rnc|title=Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC|date=September 1, 2008|publisher=Democracy Now!|accessdate=2008-09-02}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> All were held on charges of "probable cause for riot."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2008/09/democracy_now_host_amy_goodman.shtml|title=Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman arrested at RNC protest|date=September 1, 2008|work=]|accessdate=2008-09-02}}</ref> A statement was later released by the city announcing that all 'misdemeanor charges for presence at an unlawful assembly for journalists' would be dropped. The felony charges against Salazar and Kouddous were also dropped.<ref name=lawsuit>{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/wires/us/2010/05/05/D9FGPLV01_us_gop_convention_arrests_goodman/index.html|title=Journalists file lawsuit in GOP convention arrests|first=Steve|last=Karnowski|work=]|date=May 5, 2010|accessdate=August 6, 2011}}</ref> Goodman, Salazar, and Kouddous subsequently filed a lawsuit against the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis as well as other defendants.<ref name=lawsuit /> | |||
* {{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/17/amy-goodman-north-dakota-oil-access-pipeline-protest-arrest-riot |title=Judge rejects riot charges for journalist Amy Goodman after oil pipeline protest |last=Levin |first=Sam |date=October 17, 2016 |work=The Guardian |access-date=October 17, 2016 |archive-date=October 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019023948/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/17/amy-goodman-north-dakota-oil-access-pipeline-protest-arrest-riot |url-status=live }} | |||
* {{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-goodman-north-dakota-20161017-snap-story.html |title=N. Dakota charges reporter with 'riot' for covering protest--but gets slapped down by judge |last=Hiltzik |first=Michael |date=October 17, 2016 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=October 17, 2016 |archive-date=October 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018170836/http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-goodman-north-dakota-20161017-snap-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Goodman asserted the importance of freedom of the press and said that ''Democracy Now!'' would continue covering the developing situation in North Dakota.<ref name="NYT-Dismissed" /><ref name="cite-bundle" /> | |||
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| In its first year, ''Democracy Now!'' was one of the first national programs to air radio commentaries from the controversial journalist and former ] member, on death row in Pennsylvania for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer. The 1997 decision to air Abu-Jamal's commentaries caused ''Democracy Now!'' to lose twelve of its then 36 affiliates.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pacifica Stations Bolt Over Convicted Killer's Commentary |newspaper=] |author=Marc Fisher |date=February 25, 1997}}</ref> | |||
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| Took opposing sides in two debates over the ], on December 4, 2003,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/04/1523254&mode=thread&tid=25 |title=Tariq Ali vs. Christopher Hitchens on the Occupation of Iraq: Postponed Liberation or Recolonisation? |work=Democracy Now! |access-date=February 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714164952/http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03%2F12%2F04%2F1523254&mode=thread&tid=25 |archive-date=July 14, 2007}}</ref> and October 12, 2004.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116170844/http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04%2F10%2F12%2F1347208&mode=thread&tid=25 |date=November 16, 2007 }}.</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left |date=2008 |publisher=New York University Press |isbn=978-0-8147-1686-1 |pages= |url=https://archive.org/details/christopherhitch00thom |url-access=registration |quote=tariq ali democracy now. |access-date=September 10, 2016}}</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | July 11, 1996 | |||
| A regularly interviewed guest; ] linguistics professor, political analyst, and author.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/noam_chomsky |title=Noam Chomsky |work=Democracy Now! |access-date=November 14, 2016 |archive-date=November 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116112107/http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/noam_chomsky |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="MondeDiplo">{{cite news |author1=Thomas Boothe |author2=Danielle Follette |title=" Democracy now " donne sa voix à la gauche américaine |trans-title="Democracy now" gives its voice to the American Left |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2008/01/BOOTHE/15477 |access-date=September 10, 2016 |work=Le Monde diplomatique |date=January 2008 |language=fr |archive-date=September 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924041726/https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2008/01/BOOTHE/15477 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | November 8, 2000 | |||
| When Clinton called WBAI on Election Day 2000<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306072530/http://www.democracynow.org/2000/11/8/democracy_now_exclusive_interview_with_president |date=March 6, 2008 }}, ''Democracy Now!'', November 8, 2000. Retrieved September 17, 2009.</ref> for a quick ] message, Goodman and WBAI's Gonzalo Aburto challenged him for 28 minutes with human rights questions about ], ], the ], ], the death penalty, the ] (NAFTA), the normalization of relations with ], and the ]. Clinton defended his administration's policies and charged Goodman with being "hostile and combative".<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311040609/http://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/22/bill_clinton_loses_his_cool_in |date=March 11, 2009 }}, ''Democracy Now!'', June 22, 2004. Retrieved September 17, 2009.</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | October 12, 2010 | |||
| Interviewed various times on the show, Davis is a ], ], and scholar. Davis' interviews have featured topics such as the ], ] and the ], US politics and the demonetization of radicals, and her past activism.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Angela Davis on the Prison Abolishment Movement, Frederick Douglass, the 40th Anniversary of Her Arrest and President Obama's First Two Years|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/19/angela_davis_on_the_prison_abolishment|access-date=July 15, 2020|website=Democracy Now!|language=en|archive-date=July 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716043913/https://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/19/angela_davis_on_the_prison_abolishment|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Hands Off Assata Shakur: Angela Davis Calls for Radical Activism to Protect Activist Exiled in Cuba|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/28/hands_off_assata_shakur_angela_davis |first1=Angela |last1=Davis |first2=Amy |last2=Goodman |date=March 28, 2016 |access-date=July 15, 2020|website=Democracy Now!|language=en|archive-date=July 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719113531/https://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/28/hands_off_assata_shakur_angela_davis|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Angela Davis on Ferguson, Palestine & the Foundations of a Movement|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/28/freedom_is_a_constant_struggle_angela |date=March 28, 2016 |first1=Angela |last1=Davis |first2=Amy |last2=Goodman |access-date=July 15, 2020|website=Democracy Now!|language=en|archive-date=July 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716060130/https://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/28/freedom_is_a_constant_struggle_angela|url-status=live}}</ref> She was also interviewed in the summer of 2020 during the ], speaking on the political moment and spread of abolitionist ideas.<ref>{{Cite news|date=July 3, 2020|title=Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election|work=Democracy Now!|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/3/angela_davis_on_abolition_calls_to|access-date=July 15, 2020|archive-date=July 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717094249/https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/3/angela_davis_on_abolition_calls_to|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | September 24, 2003 | |||
| Finkelstein is a frequent guest. This was a much publicized debate about whether the Dershowitz book, '']'' was plagiarized and inaccurate. Dershowitz has written that he agreed to appear on the show after being told he would debate ], not Finkelstein.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.tnr.com/article/cambridge-diarist |title=Taking the Bait |magazine=The New Republic |author=Alan Dershowitz |date=May 14, 2007 |access-date=June 24, 2007 |archive-date=December 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219060304/http://www.tnr.com/article/cambridge-diarist |url-status=live }}</ref> See also: ]. | |||
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| Author, public intellectual, and critic of globalization and ]. Notable interview on March 9, 2011.<ref name="MondeDiplo" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/9/naomi_klein_on_anti_union_bills |title=Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills and Shock Doctrine American-Style: "This is a Frontal Assault on Democracy, a Corporate Coup D'Etat" |work=Democracy Now! |access-date=March 9, 2010 |archive-date=March 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310010819/http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/9/naomi_klein_on_anti_union_bills |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | September 4, 1996 | |||
| Ojibwe activist and former Green Vice Presidential Candidate.<ref>{{cite web |title=Democracy Now! Speaks to Standing Rock Chairman David Archambault II and Winona LaDuke |url=http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/08/30/democracy-now-speaks-standing-rock-chairman-david-archambault-ii-and-winona-laduke-165635 |website=Indian Country Today Media Network |access-date=September 11, 2016 |date=August 30, 2016 |archive-date=September 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907103154/http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/08/30/democracy-now-speaks-standing-rock-chairman-david-archambault-ii-and-winona-laduke-165635 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | June 14, 1996 | |||
| A regularly interviewed guest; consumer activist, corporate critic, author, and former presidential candidate.<ref name="MondeDiplo" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/21/ralph_nader_on_the_g20_healthcare |title=Ralph Nader on the G-20, Healthcare Reform, Mideast Talks and His First Work of Fiction, "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" |work=Democracy Now! |access-date=February 9, 2010 |archive-date=March 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304090405/http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/21/ralph_nader_on_the_g20_healthcare |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | July 26, 2016 | |||
| Clinton Administration Secretary of Labor ] and Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist ] debated on the role of ] supporters after ] won the 2016 Democratic nomination for president of the United States. Reich encouraged progressives to unite the party behind Clinton (as Sanders had already endorsed her), while Hedges endorsed ] of the ], denouncing the "lesser of two evils" approach.<ref>{{cite web |title=Who Should Bernie Voters Support Now? Robert Reich vs. Chris Hedges on Tackling the Neoliberal Order | via=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr4cXH3Fil8 | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/jr4cXH3Fil8| archive-date=November 17, 2021 | url-status=live|access-date=August 5, 2016 |date=July 26, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | December 15, 2008 | |||
| Recurring guest; Indian writer, ] activist, and leading figure in the ] movement.<ref name="MondeDiplo" /><ref name="democracynow_roy">{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/arundhati_roy |title=Shows With Arundhati Roy |website=Democracy Now! |access-date=November 29, 2014 |archive-date=November 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129084040/http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/arundhati_roy |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | January 6, 2014 | |||
| ] member and member of ], who made history in 2013 by becoming the first independent socialist to win election in Seattle for nearly 100 years. A frequent guest, including after her successful re-election campaign in November 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/12/socialist_kshama_sawant_seattle_election_amazon |title="Seattle Is Not For Sale": Voters Rebuke Amazon, Re-electing Socialist Kshama Sawant |work=Democracy Now! |access-date=July 10, 2020 |archive-date=July 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729203008/https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/12/socialist_kshama_sawant_seattle_election_amazon |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | June 6, 2012 | |||
| Recurring guest; Nobel Laureate economist; former Chief Economist of the ]; Chief Economist at the ] | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | November 27, 2008 | |||
| Another radio broadcaster who collected stories from everyday people.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Goodman |first1=Amy |title=Studs Terkel 1912–2008: A Democracy Now! Special Tribute to the Beloved Oral Historian and broadcaster |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/27/studs_terkel_1912_2008_a_democracy |website=Democracy Now! |access-date=September 10, 2016 |date=November 27, 2008 |archive-date=September 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910023438/http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/27/studs_terkel_1912_2008_a_democracy |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Wieder |first1=Alan |title=Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation |date=2016 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-1-58367-593-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DYCtCwAAQBAJ&q=studs+terkel+amy+goodman&pg=PT183 |access-date=September 10, 2016 |archive-date=January 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119194126/https://books.google.com/books?id=DYCtCwAAQBAJ&q=studs+terkel+amy+goodman&pg=PT183#v=snippet&q=studs%20terkel%20amy%20goodman&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | December 30, 2009 | |||
| English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who co-founded ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/1/22/pink_floyds_roger_waters_launches_campaign |date=January 22, 2016 |title=Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Launches "Campaign to Close Guantánamo" for Obama's Last Year in Office |website=Democracy Now! |access-date=January 22, 2016 |archive-date=January 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123212436/http://www.democracynow.org/2016/1/22/pink_floyds_roger_waters_launches_campaign |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailycall.org/?p=83873 |title=VIDEO: Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Performs "We Shall Overcome" In Democracy Now! Studio |date=January 29, 2016 |website=The Daily Call |last1=markt |access-date=September 11, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920102911/http://www.thedailycall.org/?p=83873 |archive-date=September 20, 2016}}</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | June 10, 2013 | |||
| American whistleblower who revealed unlawful mass surveillance carried out by the US government while working as a contractor.<ref>"", June 10, 2013, Democracy Now! {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927041316/https://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/10/youre_being_watched_edward_snowden_emerges |date=September 27, 2019 }}.</ref> | |||
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| style="white-space: nowrap;" | July 19, 2019 | |||
| British whistleblower whose attempts to expose lies about the Iraq invasion was called "the most important and courageous leak" in history.<ref>"https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/19/15_years_later_how_uk_whistleblower 15 Years Later: How U.K. Whistleblower Katharine Gun Risked Everything to Leak a Damning Iraq War Memo]", July 19, 2019, Democracy Now! {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207091033/https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/19/15_years_later_how_uk_whistleblower |date=December 7, 2020 }}.</ref> | |||
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| Swedish climate activist who sailed from Europe to America.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/11/greta_thunberg_swedish_activist_climate_crisis|title="We Are Striking to Disrupt the System": An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg |newspaper=Democracy Now|language=en|date=September 11, 2019|access-date=September 15, 2019|archive-date=September 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914093625/https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/11/greta_thunberg_swedish_activist_climate_crisis|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
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According to a 2016–17 ] survey, "democracynow.org reaches over 395K U.S. monthly people".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.quantcast.com/democracynow.org |publisher=Quantcast |title=DemocracyNow.org |url-access=registration |access-date=November 20, 2017 |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201035017/https://www.quantcast.com/democracynow.org |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
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American TV, radio, and internet news program "Democracy Now" redirects here. For other uses, see Democracy Now (disambiguation).Radio show
Genre | News program, current affairs |
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Running time | 60 minutes daily (Monday thru Friday) |
Home station | WBAI |
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Hosted by |
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Produced by | Mike Burke |
Executive producer(s) | Amy Goodman |
Recording studio | New York City |
Original release | February 19, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-02-19) – present |
Audio format | Stereophonic sound |
Opening theme | "Need to Know" by Incognito |
Ending theme | "Kid You'll Move Mountains" by Manitoba |
Website | www |
Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh. The show, which airs live each weekday at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, is broadcast on the Internet and via more than 1,400 radio and television stations worldwide.
The program combines news reporting, interviews, investigative journalism and political commentary from a progressive perspective. It documents social movements, struggles for justice, activism challenging corporate power and operates as a watchdog outfit regarding the effects of American foreign policy. Democracy Now! views as its aim to give activists and the citizenry a platform to debate people from "The Establishment". The show is described as progressive by fans as well as critics, but Goodman rejects that label, calling the program a global newscast that has "people speaking for themselves". Democracy Now! describes its staff as "includ some of this country's leading progressive journalists."
Democracy Now Productions, the independent media nonprofit organization that produces Democracy Now!, is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, and foundations such as the Park Foundation, Ford Foundation, Lannan Foundation, and the J.M. Kaplan Fund. It has over $36 million in assets and about a $10 million annual budget. Democracy Now! does not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting or government funding. The show has become popular on the internet, and from the late 2010s onward, has been involved in pioneering extensive media cooperation in the public sphere across the US.
Background
Democracy Now!, also called Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report, Democracy Now Independent Global News, or Democracy News, was founded on February 19, 1996, at WBAI in New York City by journalists Amy Goodman, Juan González, Larry Bensky, Salim Muwakkil, and Julie Drizin. It originally aired on five Pacifica Radio stations. Goodman is the program's principal host, with Juan González and Nermeen Shaikh as frequent co-hosts. Jeremy Scahill, an investigative reporter and co-founding editor for The Intercept, has been a frequent contributor since 1997.
The show covered the Seattle protests (1999) targeting the World Trade Organization.
Democracy Now! partnered with Free Speech TV (FSTV) and Deep Dish Television to cover the 2000 Democratic National Convention. The event marked a turning point for Democracy Now!, as in addition to its presence on radio, it became a television show. From then onward, Democracy Now! has had their content promoted and broadcast on FSTV.
Democracy Now! began broadcasting on television every weekday shortly after September 11, 2001, and is the only public medium in the U.S. that airs simultaneously on satellite and cable television, radio, and the internet.
Democracy Now! has been critical of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. After data disclosures by the whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks regarding the TPP in 2010, Democracy Now! has given a significant media platform and extensively covered them since, and like some other news networks cooperated with its leader Julian Assange. Coverage of WikiLeaks by Democracy Now! was sympathetic.
In 2011, reporter Sharif Abdel Kouddous covered the Egyptian revolution for Democracy Now!.
On February 19, 2016, Democracy Now! marked 20 years on the air with an hour-long retrospective look back at "two decades of independent, unembedded news", with highlights chosen from over 5,000 episodes. Amy Goodman also published a book entitled Democracy Now!: 20 Years Covering the Movements Changing America, and launched a 100-city tour across the United States to mark the 20th anniversary of Democracy Now!, with scheduled broadcasts of the show recorded during her travels.
Studios
Democracy Now! began as a radio program broadcast from the studios of WBAI, a local Pacifica Radio station in New York City. In early September 2001, amid a months-long debate over the mission and management of Pacifica, Democracy Now! was forced out of the WBAI studios. Goodman took the program to the Downtown Community Television Center located in a converted firehouse building in New York City's Chinatown, where the program began to be televised. Only a few days later on September 11, 2001 Democracy Now! was the closest national broadcast to Ground Zero. On that day Goodman and colleagues continued reporting beyond their scheduled hour-long time slot in what became an eight-hour marathon broadcast. Following 9/11, in addition to radio and television, Democracy Now! expanded their multimedia reach to include cable, satellite radio, Internet, and podcasts.
In November 2009, Democracy Now! left their broadcast studio in the converted DCTV firehouse, where they had broadcast for eight years, and moved to a repurposed graphic arts building in the Chelsea District of Manhattan. In 2010, the new 8,500-square-foot Democracy Now! studio became the first radio or television studio in the nation to receive LEED Platinum certification, the highest rating awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Syndication
Democracy Now! is the flagship program of the Pacifica Radio network. It also airs on several NPR member stations. The television simulcast airs on public-access television and several PBS stations; by satellite on Free Speech TV and Link TV, and free-to-air on C Band. Democracy Now! is also available on the Internet as downloadable and streaming audio and video. In total, nearly 1,400 television and radio stations broadcast Democracy Now! worldwide.
Awards and reception
Robert W. McChesney, quoted in The NationI think it's probably the most significant progressive news institution that has come around in some time.
Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of two Nigerian villagers protesting an oil spill; and Goodman with Allan Nairn won Robert F. Kennedy Memorial's First Prize in International Radio for their 1993 report, Massacre: The Story of East Timor, which involved first-hand coverage of genocide during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.
On October 1, 2008, Goodman was named as a recipient of the 2008 Right Livelihood Award, in connection with her years of work establishing Democracy Now! and in 2009, she, like her frequent guest Glenn Greenwald, was awarded the first annual Izzy Award (named after journalist I. F. "Izzy" Stone) for "special achievement in independent media". Her co-host Juan González was inducted into the New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' Hall of Fame on November 19, 2015.
2008 Republican National Convention arrests
Three journalists with Democracy Now!—including principal host Amy Goodman, and news producers Nicole Salazar and Sharif Abdel Kouddous—were detained by police during their reporting on the 2008 Republican National Convention Protests in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Salazar was filming as officers in full riot gear charged her area. As she yelled "Press!" she was knocked down and told to put her face in the ground while another officer dragged her backward by her leg across the pavement. The video footage of the incident was immediately posted on the Internet, leading to a large public outcry against her arrest. When a second producer, Kouddous, approached, he too was arrested, and charged with a felony. According to a press release by Democracy Now!, Goodman herself was arrested after confronting officers regarding the arrest of her colleagues. The officers had established a line of "crowd control", and ordered Goodman to move back. Goodman claims she was arrested after being pulled through the police line by an officer, and subsequently (as well as Kouddous) had her press credentials for the convention physically stripped from her by a Secret Service agent. All were held on charges of "probable cause for riot". A statement was later released by the city announcing that all "misdemeanor charges for presence at an unlawful assembly for journalists" would be dropped. The felony charges against Salazar and Kouddous were also dropped.
Goodman, Salazar, and Kouddous subsequently filed a lawsuit against the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis as well as other defendants. According to Baher Asmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights, "ll three plaintiffs that are journalists with Democracy Now reached a final settlement with the city of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the United States Secret Service, that will resolve the claims that they had against them from unlawful and quite violent arrests." The settlement includes $100,000 in compensation and a promise of police training.
2016 North Dakota access pipeline protests
Further information: Dakota Access Pipeline protestsIn September 2016, an arrest warrant for criminal trespass was issued for Amy Goodman after covering for Democracy Now! the Dakota Access Pipeline protests during which guards unleashed dogs and pepper spray on protesters in Morton County, North Dakota. An arrest warrant was reportedly also issued for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running mate, Ajamu Baraka.
Goodman elected to turn herself in. Three days before the court date, the charges were increased to engaging in a riot, which carried a penalty of up to 30 days in jail and a $1,500 fine. On October 17, 2016, the judge quickly dismissed the charges, but Morton County prosecutors insisted the case is still open and that they may pursue further charges in the future. Goodman asserted the importance of freedom of the press and said that Democracy Now! would continue covering the developing situation in North Dakota.
Notable guests, interviews, and on-air debates
Guest(s) | First Appearance(s) | Episode or Guest Notoriety |
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Mumia Abu-Jamal | February 24, 1997 | In its first year, Democracy Now! was one of the first national programs to air radio commentaries from the controversial journalist and former Black Panther Party member, on death row in Pennsylvania for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer. The 1997 decision to air Abu-Jamal's commentaries caused Democracy Now! to lose twelve of its then 36 affiliates. |
Tariq Ali, Christopher Hitchens |
December 4, 2003 October 12, 2004 |
Took opposing sides in two debates over the Iraq War, on December 4, 2003, and October 12, 2004. |
Noam Chomsky | July 11, 1996 | A regularly interviewed guest; MIT linguistics professor, political analyst, and author. |
President Bill Clinton | November 8, 2000 | When Clinton called WBAI on Election Day 2000 for a quick get-out-the-vote message, Goodman and WBAI's Gonzalo Aburto challenged him for 28 minutes with human rights questions about Leonard Peltier, racial profiling, the Iraq sanctions, Ralph Nader, the death penalty, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the normalization of relations with Cuba, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Clinton defended his administration's policies and charged Goodman with being "hostile and combative". |
Angela Davis | October 12, 2010 | Interviewed various times on the show, Davis is a prison abolitionist, communist, and scholar. Davis' interviews have featured topics such as the prison industrial complex, Palestine and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, US politics and the demonetization of radicals, and her past activism. She was also interviewed in the summer of 2020 during the George Floyd uprisings, speaking on the political moment and spread of abolitionist ideas. |
Alan Dershowitz, Norman G. Finkelstein |
September 24, 2003 | Finkelstein is a frequent guest. This was a much publicized debate about whether the Dershowitz book, The Case for Israel was plagiarized and inaccurate. Dershowitz has written that he agreed to appear on the show after being told he would debate Noam Chomsky, not Finkelstein. See also: Dershowitz–Finkelstein affair. |
Naomi Klein | June 13, 1997 | Author, public intellectual, and critic of globalization and corporate capitalism. Notable interview on March 9, 2011. |
Winona LaDuke | September 4, 1996 | Ojibwe activist and former Green Vice Presidential Candidate. |
Ralph Nader | June 14, 1996 | A regularly interviewed guest; consumer activist, corporate critic, author, and former presidential candidate. |
Robert Reich, Chris Hedges |
July 26, 2016 | Clinton Administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Chris Hedges debated on the role of Bernie Sanders supporters after Hillary Clinton won the 2016 Democratic nomination for president of the United States. Reich encouraged progressives to unite the party behind Clinton (as Sanders had already endorsed her), while Hedges endorsed Jill Stein of the Green Party of the United States, denouncing the "lesser of two evils" approach. |
Arundhati Roy | December 15, 2008 | Recurring guest; Indian writer, anti-war activist, and leading figure in the alter-globalization movement. |
Kshama Sawant | January 6, 2014 | Seattle City Council member and member of Socialist Alternative, who made history in 2013 by becoming the first independent socialist to win election in Seattle for nearly 100 years. A frequent guest, including after her successful re-election campaign in November 2019. |
Joseph Stiglitz | June 6, 2012 | Recurring guest; Nobel Laureate economist; former Chief Economist of the World Bank; Chief Economist at the Roosevelt Institute |
Studs Terkel | November 27, 2008 | Another radio broadcaster who collected stories from everyday people. |
Roger Waters | December 30, 2009 | English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who co-founded Pink Floyd. |
Edward Snowden | June 10, 2013 | American whistleblower who revealed unlawful mass surveillance carried out by the US government while working as a contractor. |
Katharine Gun | July 19, 2019 | British whistleblower whose attempts to expose lies about the Iraq invasion was called "the most important and courageous leak" in history. |
Greta Thunberg | September 10, 2019 | Swedish climate activist who sailed from Europe to America. |
Democracy Now! has featured appearances from Green Party candidate Jill Stein during the 2016 United States presidential election.
Listenership
According to a 2016–17 Quantcast survey, "democracynow.org reaches over 395K U.S. monthly people".
See also
- Alternative media
- Citizen journalism
- Citizen media
- Community radio
- Independent media
- Independent Media Center
- Mass media
- Media democracy
- Underground press
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