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Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times I
April 2, 2009
Amy Goodman host, Democracy Now!
Jordan Weinstein host, Morning Edition, WGBH-FM

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! and an award winning journalist, discusses her new book, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times. Jordan Weinstein, host of NPR’s Morning Edition on WGBH-FM, Boston’s oldest public radio station, moderates.

When media outlets are owned by an ever tightening media monopoly, what is the importance of independent media like public, non-commercial radio and television? With the declining big city newspapers cutting staff, who will do investigative reporting? Who got right the story about our current financial crisis: CNBC or Democracy Now!? Remember the deliberate media manipulation by the Bush administration in the run up to the Iraq War: what mainline media can citizens trust? What is the role of independent public forums, such as Cambridge Forum, in providing public education on progressive ideas?

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