Breaking the Sound Barrier |  | Author: Amy Goodman
Creator: Bill Moyers
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.00
Buy Used: $7.59
as of 9/8/2010 21:33 CDT details
You Save: $8.41 (53%)
New (29) Used (21) Collectible (1) from $7.59
Seller: am-pm-books
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 59336
Media: Paperback
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 380
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 193185999X
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931
EAN: 9781931859998
ASIN: 193185999X
Publication Date: October 1, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Features:
| • | ISBN13: 9781931859998 | | • | Condition: New | | • | Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed |
|
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
"Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative, and probing analysis."âNoam Chomsky "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 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."âFrom the Preface by Bill Moyers Amy Goodman, award-winning host of the daily internationally broadcast radio and television program Democracy Now!, breaks through the corporate media's lies, sound bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspectsâthe "experts" who, in Goodman's words, "know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong"âthis 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. 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 proves the power that independent journalism can play in the struggle for a better world, one in which ordinary citizens are the true experts of their own lives and communities. Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated columnist, author and the host/executive producer of Democracy Now! airing on nearly 800 stations worldwide. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.". Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers: Standing Up to the Madness, Static, and The Exception to the Rulers.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 7
Keep Breaking The Sound Barrier October 28, 2009
Michael Anthony (Boston)
32 out of 34 found this review helpful
There is one line throughout this book that sticks with me, and which I think, sums up the tone of this book.
"Each person is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."
From climate change, race, election, and media, to everything else in between.
I found Amy's reading short, sweet, and to the point, the political leanings were sown into the writing--which was expected--but more than anything, I got a history lesson from this book.
The best analogy that I can think of (and this might be horrible, let me know?) but imagine if Howard Zinn were a reporter, and instead of reporting the facts of the real history several hundred years ago, but instead was doing it day by day, as it happened.
"Nothing but the facts ma'am" and Amy delivers!
Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq
Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman November 19, 2009
A. S. Carbonell
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Amy Goodman is one of those few journalists not on the payroll of the corporate media giants nor "embedded' with the military-industrial complex. As a result, she write with a freshness and integrity that is unfettered by ideological bias, political clichés, or the myths common to American civics classes, business school s and military academies. Like Arundhati Roy, Michael Hogan and Noam Chomsky she is able to show through carefully documented facts how the so-called experts on Fox and CNN consistently get it wrong, and why their getting it wrong is no accident.
I just finished reading Arundhati Roy's Field Notes on Democracy and Michael Hogan's Savage Capitalism and the Myth of Democracy. I noticed that they had both been "paired" with Goodman's Breaking the Sound Barrier, and the reason for this is obvious. All three books are written by clear-thinking citizens with no axe to grind, no ties to any ideology or corporate entity. They were written by Socratic "gadflies" and by their relentless questioning they bring back to the rest of us in the cave an alternative view of the world which is both troublesome and oblique--like the truth. Without Any Goodman and her few companions in courage, my view of the world would be a very bleak and befuddled one, like that of the million viewers and listeners of the mass media and the readers of Sarah Palin.
Amy Goodman's Democracy Now February 8, 2010
The Big Al
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Amy Goodman, whose Democracy Now! says it all and says it well, collects bits of work in this anthology. It's a perfect introduction to a woman whose passion is for social justice. I recommend it highly. It's articulate, detailed, and persuasive. It's not funny, though: Goodman could use the bite of a sense of humor at times. Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," for example, was a short essay whose satire even today still takes to court the Brits who mistreated the Irish. Still, she's always on target and takes down her prey not with rhetoric or propaganda but with truth telling.
Anthology of the Best of Democracy Now! Reports 2007-2009 January 10, 2010
Norm (New Jersey)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
As a regular podcast listener to Democracy Now! I found this book to be an excellent anthology of Democracy Now! reports. What makes this is great book is Amy Goodman's ability to sniff out the big stories and to bring the people behind these stories to Democracy Now! viewers/listeners and "Breaking The Sound Barrier" readers. Amy Goodman is an excellent journalist in that she diligently avoids injecting her opinion in any of her interviews/stories. She lets the news makers tell their stories in their own words. This is the way an excellent journalist should do his/her job. I look forward to reading more of Amy Goodman's books.
Collections strong in democratic processes need this December 18, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Breaking the Sound Barrier offers a series of articles and writings and comes from the host of the daily radio and TV program Democracy Now! It provides a powerful set of insights based on the journalist's many observations of the democratic process, from observations of climate change politics to Wall Street socialism, media rights, and more. Collections strong in democratic processes need this.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 7
|
|
|
