Quotes by Amy Goodman - Page 1

The media—stenographers to power.
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Propaganda
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Go where there is silence and say something.
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Go to where the silence is and say something.
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Imagination
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Silence Is
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Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.
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In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.
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Doe
Littles
World
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We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.
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Journalist
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Allowed
Journalists
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The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
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Climate
Climate Change
Critical
Media
News Media
Play
Educating
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As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.
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Military
People
United States
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[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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Media
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War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
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War
Coverage
Parades
Posing
Reporters
Retired
Generals
Parade
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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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Ridiculous
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Years
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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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Right Track
Track
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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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Corporate
Independent
Media
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Barrier
Networks
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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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Covering
Equal
Numbers
Party
Reporters
Tea Party
Wall
Activists
Descended
Wall Street
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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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Hate
Media
People
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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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Character
Country
Media
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[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.
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War
Iraq
Wikileaks
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Whether you vote for me or you don't vote for me, I really want to be your greatest champion. And I will be your champion, whether you vote for me or not.
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Champion
Vote
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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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Jobs
Government
Balance
Cozy
Democracy
Media
Job
Power Government Democracy
Absolutely
Check
Essential
Supposed
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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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Earning
Investors
Taken
Typical
Actual
Earnings
Scheme
Involves
Paying
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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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Helping Others
Powerful
Responsibility
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[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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Diversity
Media
Responsibility
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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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Independent
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Support
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Chelsea Manning, who's now set to be free May 17th [2017], after Obama shortened her sentence from 35 years to seven. According to her attorneys, she is already the longest-held whistleblower in U.S. history.
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May
Whistleblowers
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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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Iraq
Media
Names
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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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Kids
War
Thinking
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During a news conference, when he was standing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President [Donald] Trump responded to a question from an Israeli reporter about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks - by boasting about his election victory.
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News
President
Victory
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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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Borders
Climate Change
Country
Developing
Developing Countries
Impact
Islands
Levels
Nations
Rising
Sea
Change World People
Change World Live
Africa
Deadly
Island
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Threats
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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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Power
Government
Media
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While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory farms, right-wing hate groups are free to organize, parade, arm themselves to the hilt and murder with chilling regularity. It’s time for our society to confront this very real threat.
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Home
Hate
Real
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In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, longtime imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera and retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But missing from the list is 71-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier.
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Over the first two weeks of the Donald Trump administration, Steve Bannon has emerged as one of the most powerful figures in the White House. The New York Times ran an editorial posing the question, "President Bannon?" wrote, quote, "We've never witnessed a political aide move as brazenly to consolidate power as Stephen Bannon - nor have we seen one do quite so much damage so quickly to his putative boss's popular standing or pretenses of competence."
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Moving
Powerful
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So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, “If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we’re finding for conflict whether there’s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that’s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.”
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