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“At times when people are told to ‘watch what they say,’ Amy Goodman is not afraid to speak truth to power. She does it every day.”
--Susan Sarandon

“Amy Goodman has carried the great muckraking tradition of Upton Sinclair, George Seldes, and I.F. Stone into the electronic age, creating a powerful counter to the mainstream media.”
--Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People’s History of the United States

“Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! represent whatjournalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power and profit. Her work is invaluable.”
--Arundhati Roy

"In Static, the brother-sister team of Amy Goodman, host of the popular international TV and radio news show Democracy Now!, and investigative journalist David Goodman once again take on government liars, corporate profiteers, and the media that has acted as their megaphone. They expose how the Bush administration has manipulated and fabricated news and how the corporate media has worked hand in glove with the powerful to deceive the public. The Goodmans cut through the spin and static to offer the truth about war, torture, and government control of the media. Mixing investigative reporting and interviews, Static presents voices of dissidents, activists, and others who are too often frozen out of official debate, to shed new light on urgent issues of war and peace. Ultimately, Static is a hopeful, fighting rallying call for people to take back our government, our media,and our world."

Amy Goodman is an indefatigable, courageous patriotic American who unceasingly exposes injustice. As compared to many journalists of both right and left who carry around egos that couldn't fit into a jumbo jet, Goodman's ego could fit comfortably into a carry-on bag and still have room left over for two llamas and a dozen eggs. In short, she's selflessly driven by a mission of making the world better through hard-hitting, fact-based reporting.

In "Static," she again teams up with her brother, David, for an insightful journey through the Bushevik reign of terror.

Amy Goodman is an internationally acclaimed journalist. She has won many of the most prestigious awards in journalism, including the George Polk Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting. Democracy Now! airs on more than three hundred radio and TV stations around the world.

David Goodman is an award-winning independent journalist whose articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Mother Jones, Outside, the Nation, and numerous other publications. He is the author most recently of the critically acclaimed Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa. He lives with his wife and two children in Vermont.

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