"Pick up this book, shake your head in
disbelief and disgust as you read it, and then...go raise some hell!"
—Michael Moore, Academy-award winning director, Bowling for Columbine
"Hard-hitting, no-holds barred brand of reporting...fierce
and tireless."
—Publishers Weekly
"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 Exception to the Rulers
is a fast-paced 350+ page expose. Part first-person on-the-ground
reporting, part old-fashioned muckraking, the book chronicles the
struggles of what Goodman calls, "the silenced majority."
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The acclaimed host of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! challenges the corporate and political hypocrisy that has silenced America.
Bill Clinton called her, "Hostile, combative, and even disrespectful."
Newt Gingrich told her that it was because of "people like you" that he warned his mother not to speak to reporters. The New York Times says she's a "reporter who's not easy-listening." The Indonesian military banned her, calling her a "threat to national security."
Amy Goodman's The Exception to the Rulers, written with her brother David Goodman, chronicles the tireless efforts of an unembedded journalist and her colleagues to get to the truth and expose the lies, corruption and crimes of the power elite-an elite that is bolstered by large media conglomerates.
For years, award-winning journalist Amy Goodman has confronted the Washington establishment and its corporate cronies. She hosts the national radio and TV show Democracy Now! , now the largest public media collaboration in North America and a phenomenal grassroots movement. Her goal is "to go to where the silence is, to give voice the silenced majority."
Now, in her first book, Amy Goodman offers her no-holds-barred perspective on world events and the hidden motives behind those in power. On subjects ranging from the deceptions of the George W. Bush administration, war profiteering in Iraq, to the corruption of media monopolies and corporate influence over the government, Amy Goodman attacks and exposes the lies and hypocrisy that put democracy at risk
"Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights."
—Noam Chomsky, author 9/11 and Hegemony or Survival
"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
"[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
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
What People Are Saying
"She gets up every morning of every day — long before the rest of us! —
to be the only daily voice of truth on the radio in the United States of America.
How sad that I even have to write those words! A nation of 300 million, a written
guarantee of a free press, and no one will do the job that Amy Goodman
does so simply, so profoundly. This book puts the pedal to the metal
of all the lies we're told, day in and day out. Amy Goodman is a
national treasure, and if you are unable to pick up her signal on
the dial, you can now pick up this book, shake your head in disbelief
and disgust as you read it, and then put it down so you can go raise some hell!"
—Michael Moore, director, Bowling for Columbine,
and author, Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's
My Country?
In The Exception to the Rulers, 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. This
latest effort provides and important forum for people around the
world who are engaged in social justice and social change.
—Danny Glover, actor
Amy Goodman has carried the great muckraking traditon of Upton Sinclair,
George Seldes, and I.F. Stone into the electronic age, creating
a powerful counter to the mainstream media. Her programs have reached
into homes across the country, educating a new generation of listeners
on the realities of U.S. policy at home and abroad. The book she
has done with her brother is a very welcome and important addition
to the dissident literature of our time.
—Howard Zinn historian and author,
A People's History of the United States
Journalist and radio host Goodman brings her hard-hitting, no-holds-barred
brand of reporting to an array of human rights, government accountability
and media responsibility issues, and the result is bracing and timely.
Goodman isn't about to let anyone slide by with easy explanations,
not even then President Clinton when he called in on her daily Pacifica
news show. And she is fierce and tireless in her commitment to dig
behind official versions of the facts to get to very different stories.
Her analysis of Iraq War contracts won by certain key Bush campaign
donors will open many eyes, not only with its neat comparison of
donation amount with contract value but also with its bold presentation
of "Crony Connections." A gadfly's life in these
turbulent times is neither restful nor boring, and Goodman's
perspective on events like genocidal massacres in East Timor and
mainstream coverage of the Jessica Lynch rescue is both important
and alarming. Instances in which newspapers like the New York Times
and the Washington Post have published stories based on leaked reports
from unnamed government sources only to have to retract the stories
later as being unfounded allow Goodman to argue that sophisticated
news management techniques of spin, disinformation and controlled
access to sources are undermining the reliability of media reporting.
How, she asks, could journalists 'embedded' with U.S.
troops in Iraq be objective reporters of all that was occurring
there, and whose interests were being served? These and other provocative
questions power Goodman's stirring call for a democratic media
serving a democratic society.
—Publishers Weekly