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110101 Amy Goodman - Breaking the Silence Barrier

The mainstream media isn't so mainstream any more. As mainstreet becomes an even more secret and closed environment where only a few privileged, mainly white, middle aged men, are allowed to tread, the corporate media has grown even more shrill in defending the indefensible. The mainstream might represent the mainstreet but it certainly no longer represents the interests of the majority. As more and more people realise that corporate bailouts, secret deals supposedly to 'strengthen the job market' and severe cut backs in social welfare programs do nothing to help them, a backlash is beginning. Most people are keen to learn ways to bridge the gaps in the media silences. The time has come, says Amy Goodman, to take over the airwaves and reclaim the most precious public space so we can breakdown the mainstreet and reclaim the mainstream.

Amy Goodman is the award winning founder and anchor of "Democracy Now!". She is a winner of the Right Livelihood Award, often described as the Alternative Nobel Prize. She is also one of the first recipients of the Park Center for Independent Media's Izzy Award, named for the great muckraking journalist I.F. Stone. The Independent of London called Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! "an inspiration"; PULSE named her one of the 20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009. She is the author of four New York Times bestsellers. Her latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier, proves the power of independent journalism in the struggle for a better world. Amy Goodman spoke at the 10th international congress of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters in La Plata, Argentina in November 2010.


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