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Amy Goodman interviewed by Booknotes.
Jul. 21st, 2004 04:48 pmJournalist Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, was interviewed by Booknotes (CSPAN) in June.
Amy discusses her work with Pacifica, DemocracyNow, and new book "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them".
Read transcript or watch video online.
LAMB: I`ve read your book, and I`d have to say, at the end of it, I gather that you`re fairly angry about a lot of things. Is that fair?
GOODMAN: I think the media has reached an all-time low in this country. And that is a terrible violation of what our profession is supposed to do.
We are supposed to hold those in power accountable. We`re not supposed to cozy up to those in power, not supposed get the perks of the powerful. We are supposed to be there to, if not keep the politicians honest, show what`s going on. And it is very serious now because we`re talking about wartime. We`re talking about, for example now, the invasion of Iraq and the occupation.
And when the media acts as a conveyer belt for the lies of the administration, we not only are violating our responsibility, but those lies take lives. Just look at the number of servicemen and women who have died in Iraq, over 700, not to mention the number of Iraqi civilians that have died, over 10,000. Now, that was the population that the Bush administration supposedly said we were going in to liberate and to save. And now more than 10,000 dead.
Amy discusses her work with Pacifica, DemocracyNow, and new book "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them".
Read transcript or watch video online.
LAMB: I`ve read your book, and I`d have to say, at the end of it, I gather that you`re fairly angry about a lot of things. Is that fair?
GOODMAN: I think the media has reached an all-time low in this country. And that is a terrible violation of what our profession is supposed to do.
We are supposed to hold those in power accountable. We`re not supposed to cozy up to those in power, not supposed get the perks of the powerful. We are supposed to be there to, if not keep the politicians honest, show what`s going on. And it is very serious now because we`re talking about wartime. We`re talking about, for example now, the invasion of Iraq and the occupation.
And when the media acts as a conveyer belt for the lies of the administration, we not only are violating our responsibility, but those lies take lives. Just look at the number of servicemen and women who have died in Iraq, over 700, not to mention the number of Iraqi civilians that have died, over 10,000. Now, that was the population that the Bush administration supposedly said we were going in to liberate and to save. And now more than 10,000 dead.
