http://www.guerrillanews.com/media/doc2531.htmlGuerrilla of the Week
Editor's Pick, July 28, 2003
Democracy Now! has always been a shining star in the often flaky alternative media universe. The New York-based radio and television show, which is now on over 140 stations in North America, has become the flagship for a new distribution model for progressive media outlets. You can find Democracy Now! on Pacifica, community, and National Public Radio stations, public access cable television stations, satellite television (on Free Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH Network), shortwave radio and on their web site, Democracynow.org. While this achievement is in no small part a result of the dedication of a talented group of producers, editors, volunteers and contributors, the driving force behind the show is this week's guerrilla, the indefatigable Amy Goodman.
As the co-host (with Juan Gonzalez) of the expanded two-hour version of the show's War and Peace Report, Goodman has recently been at the top of her game, offering listeners some of the most insightful coverage of the so-called War on Terror around.
In the age of O'Reilly and Limbaugh, Goodman is in some ways a throwback to the days of Edward R. Morrow, when radio was about giving it to you straight, without the bombast and buffoonery. She may not be the most thrilling broadcaster, but she knows her stuff, and most importantly, she lets people talk.
Democracy Now! is probably the most important broadcast news source in the country today. We urge all of our readers to listen to the show, and support it if you can
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The following is an excerpt from a recent Goodman interview with frequent guest Robert Fisk of the London Independent. Talking on a sat-phone from Iraq, Fisk examines the reaction to the Qusay and Uday killings on the Baghdad street. This is the kind of gritty analysis you aren't going to find in the mainstream media:
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ROBERT FISK: …The majority who do believe in the Uday picture, unfortunately for the Americans, a majority of them believe he should have been captured and put before a court so justice could be done and civil society could see real justice taking place, not a kind of drum head court whereby you yell for the guy to surrender on a bull horn and then storm the place with missiles and rocket-firing helicopters. An awful lot of Iraqis, by far the greater majority of those I spoke to today, complained bitterly there was no justice in this.
That if the Americans had wanted to take these two men alive, they would have done so. A couple of them mentioned Manuel Noriega who was, of course, sieged in the embassy and was eventually got hold of.
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