Amy Goodman

@Gary, you obviously don’t listen to or watch Amy on any regular basis. If you did, you would know that she had the tough questions for both candidates in the last election. Only occasionally can she actually get through to question them directly, because both parties know they will get real questions from her, so she gets very little access. Her biggest value is that she talks to the people that other journalists and the politicians don’t even talk to, the people who are actually effected by policies. She is the only major journalist I know of who actually talked to the protesters at *both* national conventions (and got arrested for it). She is not a partisan, but a seeker of truth and if you actually knew her work, you would be compelled to agree with that assessment.

Complete sophistry. You/AMY are just another 5Th columnist, masquerading as a journalist. Where were your "TOUGH" questions of the candidate Obama last election cycle?? Why didn't you treat BOTH candidates with EQUAL vigor and inquisition??? You are all going out of business, not because of "THE INTERNET", but because no matter HOW you cry "WE ARE JOURNALISTS & AMERICA NEEDS US!" Enough of America sees you all for the extension of the Democratic national committee you are.

To Yirmaster.

Again, woefully misguided. If you'd actually seen a single episode of Democracy Now, they are constantly talking about Barack Obama's administration and the countless injustices brought on by the current administration.

Your claim of staging news needs more sources.

Again, Democracy Now reports on the countless Democratic senators and representatives who are causing the problems with our system right now, as well as the right. My opinion is that you need to stop basing everything on your broken two party system and embrace real democracy.

Your quote has no bearing on this issue as Amy Goodman is a journalist, not a politician. You would understand this if you'd actually seen her in action. If you ever listen to or watch an interview between her and anyone on Democracy Now you will notice that she never explicitly makes any claims or accusations, she simply asks questions to which her guests answer. Thus, journalism. She lets her guests, left or right, speak for themselves. It's not a mic cutting circus like O'Reilly's and Beck's. Interesting thing to think about, O'Reilly himself is a liberal with very left leaning ideas. But that doesn't matter since his show is a circus.

And while I absolutely agree that Democracy Now is far more left leaning than right, the program is constantly inviting people onto the show to give their side of the story, often against eachother in the same interview. It is just that the guests they invite tend to decline to even show up in most cases. Probably due to the lack of attention as opposed to the major television network circus shows that they call 'news'.

You see, you're missing the point entirely. This is about journalism, not politics. She used George W. Bush as an example for a reason. If you look at the time the Iraq war happened, you can relate it to the uprising of alternative news on the internet. She is relating this with peoples' disillusionment with the Iraq war and its various ongoings. It has nothing to do with a right wing presidential administration. They would have done it for anyone, left or right. Any time there is a war, the media tends to get behind the president regardless of how they feel about domestic policies. When the media cowtoed to Bush's war, people grew more alienated by it and sought alternative news in other places. People still do it to this day, specifically many young voters who recently entered in to the democratic system JUST to vote for Barack Obama, and the disillusionment they have with the current administrations failings.

You really need to think before you speak, sir.

hehe, wow - i never would've thought that of all the countries she would mention the rather small one where i live - austria... very nice :)

I'm quite certain that DemocracyNow is the only news programme worth watching (I view it online in the UK). Not a day passes but I wish even the so-called best of our news anchors would adopt the Amy Goodman style. Our world and our lives would be so poor without this beacon. Thanks for these inspiring interviews KCTS9 - they've reminded us that with people like Amy around we don't need to abandon hope.

All best
Brian

I love it, "when the media promotes the lies of an administration" of course she brings up the "B" Bush word.

Where is she about the lies of the current president Obama and his administration?

She's a biased left wing extremist. She all too often "Creates" her own staged news using plants and choreographed protests and crowds.

Always attack the right is her montra, not so fair and balanced is it?

The best is when she writes and syndicates news stories about herself and protests and interviews she stages to promote her left wing agenda.

Left, Right, they're politicians thus all corrupt.

One of my favorite political quotes is from Sean Connery Great from the movie Hunt for Red October:
"I'm a politician, which means I'm a liar and a cheat. When I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops."

Unfortunately today's media has also chosen sides and in most cases when they make it known, they don't even give the other side a chance to question.

I`m astonished. In Denmark the majority of the people are admiring your country; the country that freed Europ from the nazis. They dont know the true history about what your contry has done in Vietnam, Chile, Grenada, Kosova, Serbia, Irak , Afganistan, Somalia, Venezuela and so on.
But I got astonished when I saw Amy getting arrested. That is difficult to understand.The danish goverment and system are using the pres to explain their point of view, all the big papers are owned by the capitalist system they are conservativ or rightwing liberal. They dont need to arrest leftwing journalists because they dont have any place to write.
They must be afraid when they have to arrest journalists.
Thank you for good news.