Amy Goodman

The media—stenographers to power. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#power #propaganda #truth #propaganda

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. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#earnings #investors #involves #money #new

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

— Amy Goodman

#journalist #learned #politician #probably #ridiculous

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#covering #descended #equal #number #party

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

— Amy Goodman

#break #corporate #doing #go #independent

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

— Amy Goodman

#change #climate #climate change #critical #critical role

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

— Amy Goodman

#generals #government #more #parade #posing

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

— Amy Goodman

#jobs #journalists #protect #their

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#balance #check #cozy #democracy #essential