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Breaking the Sound Barrier
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Breaking the Sound Barrier:

By Amy Goodman, Edited by Denis Moynihan
Foreword by Bill Moyers

Amy Goodman 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. As Willie Nelson says, "There is no one who should be more on the mainstream media, every day reminding us and giving us a glimpse of the power of one."

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 is, in Arianna Huffington's words, "crusading journalism at its best."

380 pages
ISBN: 978-1-931859-99-8



QUOTES

“Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights.”
—Noam Chomsky, author 9/11 and Hegemony or Survival

“You want public broadcasting to be balanced against all these elite establishment voices that get heard? Get Amy Goodman on public television.”
—Bill Moyers, Emmy-award winning PBS journalist

“What journalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power and profit.”
—Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things

“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, actress

“I heard you were a firebrand. Well bring it, baby!”
—Stephen Colbert,The Colbert Report

“[Carries] the great muckraking traditon of Upton Sinclair, George Seldes, and I.F. Stone into the electronic age.”
—Howard Zinn, historian and author, A People’s History of the United States

“Amy Goodman continues the quest for global justice and awareness by bringing us stories and a perspective that we don’t normally get from the mainstream media.”
—Danny Glover, actor

THE RULERS TAKE EXCEPTION TO AMY GOODMAN:

“Hostile, combative, and even disrespectful.”
—President Bill Clinton

“A threat to national security.”
—The Indonesian military

“I have advised my mother to talk to no reporters because of... people like you.”
—Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich

PRAISE FOR BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER:

“ 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 morning 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 Foreword by Bill Moyers, host, Bill Moyers Journal

“ Amy Goodman is a towering progressive freedom-fighter in the media and the world. Breaking the Sound Barrier is another expression of her vision and courage.”
—Cornel West, prolific author and academic

“ By bringing us the perspectives of those too often denied access to the media megaphone, Breaking the Sound Barrier is crusading journalism at its best.”
—Arianna Huffington, journalist and founder, Huffington Post

“There is no one who should be more on mainstream media every day reminding us and giving us a glimpse of the power of one, than Amy. She will go down in history as one of the voices of democracy's greatest champions.”
—Willie Nelson, musician and activist