Amy Goodman, host of the nationally syndicated radio show Democracy Now! spoke at Northwestern University on Sept. 20.
This was a part of her “Breaking the Sound Barrier Tour,” promoting a new book that she wrote along with brother David Goodman, which is entitled Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the People Who Fight Back. In her tour, she will visit more than 80 cities across the country.
“She told stories from the book, and the people she met in the process of reporting the news,” said Dale Lehman, one of the introductory speakers and a disc jockey at NEIU’s radio station WZRD. Lehman also said that this show is not corporately owned or run and non-commercialized.
Goodman first helped launch the show in 1996, Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now!. A decade later, “[Democracy Now!] provides [the] audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts,” according to www.democracynow.org.
The show is aired on WZRD (88.3 FM) Monday through Friday from 7 to 8 a.m. and 8 to 9 a.m., as well as on cable channel CAN TV from 7 to 8 p.m. Check your local listings for additional times.