Amy Goodman at Authors@Google
January 25th, 2011 § 1 Comment
An illuminating lecture on US news media, journalism and the US ‘s current wars by Amy Goodman during a lecture at Authors@Google from May 2010.
Amy Goodman:
We need a media in this country that builds bridges between communities rather than advocates the bombing of bridges. The media can be a great force for peace but that’s not how it’s used in this country.
I just came from Stanford speaking last night to a conference today on the future of journalism and for all of the new ways, interesting ways of distributing media and all the new possibilities and what with newspapers folding, what does it mean and where is journalism going, I think we still have to get back to the very important basics of journalism: holding those in power accountable.
From Authors@Google:
Amy Goodman visits Google’s Mountain View office to present her book “Breaking the Sound Barrier”. This event took place on April 30, 2010, as part of the Authors@Google series.
Amy Goodman breaks through the corporate medias lies, sound-bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects, the experts who, in Goodmans words, know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong,” this accessible, lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear. From community organizers in New Orleans, to the courageous American soldiers who’ve said “No” to Washington’s wars, to the victims of torture and police violence, we are given the extraordinary opportunity to hear ordinary people standing up and speaking out. As Willie Nelson says, “There is no one who should be more on the mainstream media, every day reminding us and giving us a glimpse of the power of one.”
Written with all of the fierce intelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from Amy Goodmans reportage, Breaking the Sound Barrier is, in Arianna Huffington’s words, “crusading journalism at its best.”
Amy Goodman and Arianna Huffington are masters of duplicity. Let see them tackle American Zionism. Is that crickets I hear?