Imagine our generation's MLK as Vice President - A true Progressive Hero - Amy Goodman

[populistdriven]

Amy Goodman Biography
Journalist, host of Democracy Now, 1957—

“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. Our mission is to make dissent commonplace in America.”

~snip~

Goodman grew up on Long Island, the descendant of Hasidic rabbis and the daughter of radical parents. After graduating from Harvard in 1984 with a degree in anthropology, she spent 10 years as producer of the evening news show at WBAI, Pacifica Radio’s station in New York City. Democracy Now, which began in 1996, now airs on more than 225 stations across North America.

Goodman believes that media should be, in the title of the 2004 book she wrote with her brother David, The Exception to the Rulers. “The role of reporters,” she says, “is to go to where the silence is and say something.” For going to places like East Timor, Nigeria, Peru, and Haiti to report on stories ignored by the mainstream media, often as considerable risk, she has won many honors including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism, George Polk, and Overseas Press Club awards.

“She begins broadcasting at 7 a.m., and works until near midnight,” a reporter wrote in the Washington Post. Her fellow journalist Danny Schechter has said, about her, “She works hard and when she's not working, she works harder. She is earnest to a fault, with little patience for folks who may have a more nuanced stance on certain issues than she does. But she is informed, committed, passionate, thorough and very uncompromising.” Goodman is, Schechter says, “in a class of her own.”

http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Amy_Goodman.html

[Radio_Lady]

1. She would be a fascinating choice... thanks for your post!

Cordially,

Radio Lady Ellen Kimball in Oregon

[populistdriven]

4. Here she is hammering on the issues on Hardball! (she defends Michelle Obama)

I just LOVE the way she debates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqy-67mSQHk

[4_Legs_Good]

7. She debates well because she speaks only the truth

And she knows what the hell she's talking about, and she's not afraid of the truth or to be confrontational.

David

[4_Legs_Good]

2. Amy is the BEST

The BEST!

What a coool choice that would be.

David

[populistdriven]

3. Amy's interview puts Obama in the hot-seat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjQ_J4WMHzM

[4_Legs_Good]

6. Amy doesn't go easy on anyone

and that's EXACTLY what this country needs in the media. I can guarantee we would not have invaded Iraq if people had spent 1/10 of the time they spent watching MSM watching DN! It's actually been tragically funny how the MSM has FINALLY reported stuff that DN! was breaking 4 years ago and then acting as if NOBODY had any idea about it back then.

I wonder how she would do as a Press Secretary, where she could be critical of the President, the Congress and the Media all at once, and still tell Americans the truth.

To be honest, he handled the questions pretty well, though it was obvious that he didn't want to have to answer them.

I love them both sooooo mcuh!

David

[populistdriven]

5. KICK! (for Obama!)

[MethuenProgressive]

8. "our generation's MLK"

She's certainly brilliant, eloquent, and thoughtful, but... "our generation's MLK"?
No.