Amy Goodman Quotes (10 Quotes)

Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U. S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

The Exception to the Rulers Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them,

Voices of Our Time.

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

I loved what she said about Cindy Sheehan. ... I think it's important that she exposed the oil companies' destruction of our planet and how they hire the military to kill village people where they are raping the resources and the people in Nigeria. And she's exposing the oil spills ... and how the Pentagon tried to hide the truth about atomic bombs (and paid a New York Times reporter) to write stories that covered up the radiation sickness,

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.

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

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

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

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