Apr 2005
Amy Goodman, Un-Embed the Media! tour in Baltimore
Fri., Apr. 15, 2005 /public access
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When: 4/15/2005 7:30 PM - 4/15/2005 9:00 PM
Where: Unity United Methodist Church, 1433 Edmondson Ave., Baltimore, MD 21223
Amy Goodman, Un-Embed the Media! tour in Baltimore
Friday, 15 April 2005
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Organizers: Baltimore Grassroots Media & Unity United Methodist Church
Amy Goodman, internationally acclaimed journalist and host of the nationally broadcast daily radio/TV news hour Democracy Now!, brings the Un-Embed the Media! tour to Baltimore.
She will be discussing the role of the media in the context of a nation at war, comparing corporate-owned media with the work of independent media. She presents a compelling argument for the importance of independent media to foster dialogue that is vital to a healthy democracy.
Democracy Now! is an award-winning, national, daily radio and TV news hour, pioneering the largest public media collaboration in North America. It is broadcast on Baltimore cable TV Public Access Channel 5, Monday-Friday at 6 p.m. (and repeats the next day at 8 a.m.) as well as nationally on over 300 radio and TV stations in North America, including Free Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH network (satellite TV), Link TV, channel 375 Direct TV and channel 9410 DISH network. The show also can be viewed at www.democracynow.org.
A frequent and dynamic guest on shows such as MSNBC's Hardball and on CNN, Goodman is also the author of the best-selling book, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them (Hyperion Press, paperback release April 2005). Part first person on-the-ground reporting, part old-fashioned muckraking, the fast-paced 350-page expose chronicles the lies of politicians and the corruption of media monopolies.
Goodman has clearly struck a nerve with the American public. Last year, she spoke to sold-out crowds during her 100-city tour that swept the country. The Exception to the Rulers has appeared on many bestseller lists, including in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Sense National, and Amazon.com. The editors of Publishers Weekly chose The Exception to the Rulers as one of the Top 50 Nonfiction books of 2004, and Booksense.com chose it as the top non-fiction book of the 2004 Election Season.
Goodman's reporting has won rave reviews:
"Hard-hitting, no-holds barred brand of reporting...fierce and tireless."
-Publishers Weekly
" [W]hen National Public Radio sounds as safe as a glass of warm milk, Democracy Now! retains a jagged and intriguing edge. "
-Washington Post
"Amy Goodman has carried the great muckraking tradition 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
Location:
Unity United Methodist Church, 1433 Edmondson Ave., Baltimore, MD 21223
Cost: free
Where: Unity United Methodist Church, 1433 Edmondson Ave., Baltimore, MD 21223
Amy Goodman, Un-Embed the Media! tour in Baltimore
Friday, 15 April 2005
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Organizers: Baltimore Grassroots Media & Unity United Methodist Church
Amy Goodman, internationally acclaimed journalist and host of the nationally broadcast daily radio/TV news hour Democracy Now!, brings the Un-Embed the Media! tour to Baltimore.
She will be discussing the role of the media in the context of a nation at war, comparing corporate-owned media with the work of independent media. She presents a compelling argument for the importance of independent media to foster dialogue that is vital to a healthy democracy.
Democracy Now! is an award-winning, national, daily radio and TV news hour, pioneering the largest public media collaboration in North America. It is broadcast on Baltimore cable TV Public Access Channel 5, Monday-Friday at 6 p.m. (and repeats the next day at 8 a.m.) as well as nationally on over 300 radio and TV stations in North America, including Free Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH network (satellite TV), Link TV, channel 375 Direct TV and channel 9410 DISH network. The show also can be viewed at www.democracynow.org.
A frequent and dynamic guest on shows such as MSNBC's Hardball and on CNN, Goodman is also the author of the best-selling book, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them (Hyperion Press, paperback release April 2005). Part first person on-the-ground reporting, part old-fashioned muckraking, the fast-paced 350-page expose chronicles the lies of politicians and the corruption of media monopolies.
Goodman has clearly struck a nerve with the American public. Last year, she spoke to sold-out crowds during her 100-city tour that swept the country. The Exception to the Rulers has appeared on many bestseller lists, including in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Sense National, and Amazon.com. The editors of Publishers Weekly chose The Exception to the Rulers as one of the Top 50 Nonfiction books of 2004, and Booksense.com chose it as the top non-fiction book of the 2004 Election Season.
Goodman's reporting has won rave reviews:
"Hard-hitting, no-holds barred brand of reporting...fierce and tireless."
-Publishers Weekly
" [W]hen National Public Radio sounds as safe as a glass of warm milk, Democracy Now! retains a jagged and intriguing edge. "
-Washington Post
"Amy Goodman has carried the great muckraking tradition 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
Location:
Unity United Methodist Church, 1433 Edmondson Ave., Baltimore, MD 21223
Cost: free