Amy Goodman Quotes

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."

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

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.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

More and more people are saying 'no' to government lies, corporate greed, and a slavish media.

The silenced majority is finding its voice.

Go where there is silence and say something.

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.

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?'

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.

In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

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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.