SummaryThe acclaimed host of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now!
challenges the corporate and political hypocrisy that has
silenced America.
Bill Clinton called her, "Hostile, combative, and even
disrespectful." Newt Gingrich told her that it was because
of "people like you" that he warned his mother not to speak
to reporters. The New York Times says she's a "reporter
who's not easy-listening." The Indonesian military banned
her, calling her a "threat to national security." Amy Goodman's The Exception to the Rulers, written with her
brother David Goodman, chronicles the tireless efforts of
an unembedded journalist and her colleagues to get to the
truth and expose the lies, corruption and crimes of the
power elite-an elite that is bolstered by large media
conglomerates. For years, award-winning journalist Amy Goodman has
confronted the Washington establishment and its corporate
cronies. She hosts the national radio and TV show Democracy
Now!, now the largest public media collaboration in North
America and a phenomenal grassroots movement. Her goal
is "to go to where the silence is, to give voice to the
silenced majority." Now, in her first book, Amy Goodman offers her no-holds-
barred perspective on world events and the hidden motives
behind those in power. On subjects ranging from the
deceptions of the George W. Bush administration, war
profiteering in Iraq, to the corruption of media monopolies
and corporate influence over the government, Amy Goodman
attacks and exposes the lies and hypocrisy that put
democracy at risk.
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