Amy Goodman "Giant Slayer" (NYT)

[kpete]

A Grass-Roots Newscast Gives a Voice to Struggles
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: October 23, 2011

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The media, Ms. Goodman said in an interview last week, can be “the greatest force for peace on earth” for “it is how we come to understand each other.” But she asserted that the views of a majority of Americans had been “silenced by the corporate media.”

“Which is why we have to take it back,” she said, echoing the sentiments of many of her fans.

Friends and former colleagues describe Ms. Goodman as ferocious and persistent, traits that have not changed since the program’s inception in 1996 on five Pacifica Radio stations.

“On the radio, she sounded at times like a giant, at others a giant slayer,” said Jeremy Scahill, now an investigative reporter for The Nation magazine, who practically begged Ms. Goodman to let him volunteer for the program in 1997. She agreed and initially paid him $40 a day from her own pocket. On Facebook he lists the program as his college education.

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[orwell]

1. Kicked & Rec'ed for Amy...

...she's a giant among midgets.

[Octafish]

2. Amy Goodman should be Publisher of The New York Times.

...at the very least -- and for starters.

[bvar22]

3. I always have a K&R for Amy Goodman.

One of the few voices for TRUTH left in our Declining Empire.


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity99!
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[EFerrari]

4. After headlines, Michael Moore and Cornel West for the hour today.

:kick:

[Stuart G]

5. k & r thanks for posting...nt

[alp227]

6. any west coasters wake up early to hear the show live at 5AM PT?

I do! (There's a 160k stream on the website of Chapel Hill, NC station WCOM, and after the main show you can often hear bonus content during the 9AM Eastern hour on the stream of the flagship station WBAI in New York City. It's usually if Amy is doing fundraising drives, she intersperses her memorization of New York City neighborhoods with some bonus chat with guests.)