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The Progressive: ‘Go to Where the Silence Is’

DN! in the NewsFebruary 18, 2021

The Progressive's Norman Stockwell interviewed Amy Goodman about Democracy Now!'s 25th Anniversary.

Amy Goodman discusses Democracy Now!’s coverage over the last quarter-century, explaining “It is the role of the media to go to where the silence is and, so often, it is not silent there. It is loud, it is raucous, people are organizing. It just doesn’t hit the corporate media radar screen, particularly in the United States. And that’s what we were trying to do, break the sound barrier.”

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