num_pages: 377
description: You can learn more of the truth about Washington and the world from one week of Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! than from a month of Sunday morning talk shows. Make that a year of Sunday talk shows. That's because Amy as you will discover on every page of this book knows the critical question for journalists is how close they are to the truth not how close they are to power.From the Preface by Bill MoyersAmy Goodman award-winning host of the daily internationally broadcast radio and television program Democracy Now! breaks through the corporate media's lies sound bites and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspectsthe experts who in Goodman's words know so little about so much explain the world to us and get it so wrongthis accessible lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear. From community organizers in New Orleans to the courageous American soldiers who've said No to Washington's wars to the victims of torture and police violence we are given the extraordinary opportunity to hear ordinary people standing up and speaking out. Written with all of the fierce intelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from Amy Goodman's reportage Breaking the Sound Barrier proves the power that independent journalism can play in the struggle for a better world one in which ordinary citizens are the true experts of their own lives and communities.
language: English
title: Breaking the Sound Barrier
publisher: Haymarket Books