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In reply to the discussion: Gotta love Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! ....... [View all]ucrdem
(15,512 posts)30. Tough call. She was much better before 9/11.
And she jumped the shark entirely when Obama won in 2008. Long and short, the show is unreliable as a news source. What you get is a particular line that favors a particular kind of story -- Arab Spring, Occupy, Assange-Snowden-Greenwald-Chomsky etc -- so if you like that stuff, sure, it's a good show. But no better than Limbaugh on most days and whether Amy G realizes it or not she's catapulting somebody's propaganda. Ditto Pacifica. Whose I don't know, but I don't agree with it and it seems inimical to actual political progress as we discuss it here. So with all its many flaws, NPR winds up being a better source for news than Pacifica or DN.
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RufusTFirefly
Oct 2014
#15
She's a troublemaker, a whistleblower, and has opinions. We need more like her. K&R
Tierra_y_Libertad
Oct 2014
#17
With the few left for whom we can donate… DN will get our support this year...
MrMickeysMom
Oct 2014
#21
"Cop provoking"....what kind? Like Michael Brown provoking, or Kelly Thomas provoking?
U4ikLefty
Oct 2014
#33
Amy has been in some truly hairy situations like the midst of a genocide in East Timor
yurbud
Oct 2014
#57
You are one who said her show is "no better than Limbaugh on most days" am I correct?
U4ikLefty
Oct 2014
#36
Do you remember what happened to NPR when Bush was president and appointed their president?
yurbud
Oct 2014
#50
In terms of her role as an important public intellectual she's on par with Chomski IMO
Monk06
Oct 2014
#42