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Amy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist and author. She is best known as the host of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! program.
Goodman was born in Bayshore, New York, in 1957, and graduated from Harvard University in 1984. She is Jewish and some of her family lives in Israel.
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 in 2000 as a result of a conflict for control of Pacifica Radio with a group favoring less news and more jazz. The show moved to a converted firehouse (where it is still located to this day) and begun broadcasting "In Exile". Listeners eventually regained control of Pacifica and brought the show back.
Covering the movement for East Timor independence in 1991, Goodman and journalist Allan Nairn were badly beaten by Indonesian soldiers while they witnessed a mass killing of Timorese demonstrators in what became known as the Dili Massacre. 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, Goodman and journalist Jeremy Scahill documented the cooperation in human rights abuses between the Chevron Corporation and the Nigerian army.
In the run-up to the 2000 presidential election, President Bill Clinton telephoned WBAI to argue in support of Vice President Al Gore over Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. The ensuing interview between Goodman and Clinton, which the president characterized as "hostile", became well known 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 Ambassador Richard Holbrooke.
Quotes
- "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?" - Amy Goodman, Independent Media in a Time of War
- "ou're as mainstream, it seems to me, as anybody." - Tucker Carlson to Amy Goodman, November 12, 2004 interview on Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered
- When you think of a journalist do you think of a sleazy individual only interested in pop stars, royalty and sex scandals? Amy Goodman can make you think again. (The Socialist UK newspaper 28 01 2005)
External links
- Peace Correspondent: 'Democracy Now!' Host Amy Goodman Is Making Her Voice Heard on Iraq - Published on March 10, 2003 by The Washington Post.
- C-SPAN Booknotes: Amy Goodman on The Exception to the Rulers - June 6, 2004; RealVideo format.
- Independent Media in Time of War - A documentary featuring Amy Goodman in RealVideo format.