Journalist sounds warning to democracy in U.S.

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Sunday, September 04, 2005
By REESE DANLEY-KILGO For The Times
Amy Goodman offers deeper look at current events

"The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them," by Amy Goodman, with David Goodman. Hyperion, 342 pages, $12.95.

"I really do think that if for one week in the U.S. 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. Our mission is to make dissent commonplace in America."

Amy Goodman is one of the bravest, most talented, most dedicated U.S. journalists writing and speaking in the world today. For over two decades, she has been America's voice of the true majority, the voice of the silenced.

"The role of reporters," she says, "is to go 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. It is the best reason I know to carry our pens, cameras, and microphones into our own communities and out to the wider world." <snip>

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