Rent Breaking the Sound Barrier

Synopsis

'Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative, and probing analysis.'—Noam Chomsky

Amy 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 suspects—the 'experts' who, in Goodman's words, 'know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong'—this 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.

With foreword by Bill Moyars.

Amy Goodman is the author of several books, including The Exception to the Rulers, published in audiobook format by Haymarket Books. She is also the host of the radio and television program Democracy Now!, now carried on more than five hundred stations and on www.democracynow.org.

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