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Amy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist. She is best-known as the host of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! program.
Goodman was born in Bayshore, New York, and graduated Harvard University in 1984.
Goodman was news director of Pacifica Radio station WBAI-FM in New York City for a decade, co-founding Democracy Now in 1996. The show moved off-site permanently as a result of the battle for control over Pacifica Radio in 2000.
Covering the battle for independence in East Timor in 1991, Goodman and journalist Allan Nairn were badly beaten by Indonesian soldiers while they witnessed a massacre of Timorese demonstrators. She has speculated that having an American passport was the reason why her fate was different from that of Australian journalists who were killed in East Timor in 1975, since the M-16 that the Indonesian soldiers held to her head was manufactured in the United States. In Nigeria, she and journalist Jeremy Scahill documented the cooperation in human rights abuses between the Chevron Oil Corporation and the Nigerian army.
In the runup to the 2000 presidential election, President Bill Clinton telephoned Democracy Now to argue in support of Vice President Al Gore over Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. The ensuing hostile interview between Goodman and Clinton became the stuff of legend among American progressives.
Goodman has received dozens of awards for her work, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the George Polk Award. In 2001 she declined to accept the Overseas Press Club Award, in protest of the group's pledge not to ask questions of keynote speaker Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke.
- "But for the media to name their coverage what the Pentagon calls it; everyday seeing "Operation Iraqi Freedom," you have to ask: "If this were state media, how would it be any different?" Goodman on corporate media
External links
- Washington Post: Peace Correspondent: 'Democracy Now!' Host Amy Goodman Is Making Her Voice Heard on Iraq
- C-SPAN Booknotes: Amy Goodman on The Exception to the Rulers - June 6, 2004; RealVideo format.
- "Independent Media in Time of War" Amy Goodman (Speech presentation) Broadband Dialup (Real audio format)
You can listen to her interview with Bill Clinton in 2000 here. In the interview Clinton accuses Amy of being "combative and hostile".