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Submitted by lambert on Fri, 08/03/2012 - 3:43am

The entire Presidential ticket of the Green Party gets itself arrested committing civil resistance on foreclosure, so who does Amy [genuflects] Goodman interview?

That's right. Dennis Kucinich on Kucinich Action, a "new organization dedicated to empowering individuals to engage with the political process."

Try the veal!

NOTE I've got issues on the side with the Green's foreclosure and framing, but that's a whole other thing. I mean, I expect a news blackout from Pravda and Izvestia. But Democracy Now? C'mon, Amy. News! Over here!

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Submitted by danps on

It's the kind of story that will keep, though. She could revisit it any time in the next week or so, and considering no one else will be reporting on it, it will still be news!

And yes, Goodman is terrific.

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Submitted by DCblogger on

Jill Stein has been on Democracy Now!

Submitted by Aquifer on

so Amy could beat her over the head with Zinn ...

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Submitted by jest on

DN is better than most, but its a shell of its former self.

Ever since the shakeup at Pacifica, their coverage has lost its luster. Everyone's support for Obamarama smokescreened their gradual move to the establishment. But now that Obama & the Ds have been exposed for what they are, their silence & lack of critique of the establisment has been deafening.

From what I hear, the current regime is a bit more Dem friendly than in the past.

I was surprised that they did an entire broadcast from the GP convention last month, but their refusal to cover the arrest seems more in line with their current M.O.

Submitted by ubetchaiam on

I'd notice the 'softness' that has occurred at DN but had no idea it was tied to any shakeup; got info on that?

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Submitted by jest on

I remember bits and pieces of it spilling out on the radio segments when they were fundraising, but never understood the full impact until later on.

As I recall, they were having money issues, and that's how it started. I saw an interview with a Pacifica insider at WBAI (sorry, don't have the link anymore) who broke it down.

Some of the management types wanted a more mainstream audience, basically. When the financial issues were finally settled, the only people with clout left were the centrist types. And that's how we got to where we are now.

The interview I saw corroborates the Pacifica Radio Wikipedia entry. Since I can't provide the video (it was long and boring, anyway) you can peruse this instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifica_Radio#Internal_conflict.2C_1990s-2002

Submitted by ubetchaiam on

I vaguely remember the issue of money and the fund raising effort; sad how everything seems to come down to money.

Submitted by Aquifer on

(read the transcript), as i was out of town/off line when it aired. What caught my attention right away was Amy's repeated invocation of Zinn's (and Chomsky's) letter urging non support of Greens in 'O4 "What's your response, Dr. Stein?" She neglected to acknowledge and, for some reason, Stein did not mention, Chomsky's endorsement of Stein this time around. Stein handled it well, I thought - but Goodman's use of a prog "icon" who can no longer speak for himself, as a surrogate for her own POV (I will bet $ on that) I thought was not only despicable but pretty damn transparent ....

Instead of discussing the issues and platform more fully, Goodman spent an inordinate amt of time on this ...

I agree - when DN was lean and hungry in the firehouse studio it was better - now with more funding, a bigger fancier hi tech studio and more MS recognition - she is now "respectable", and she will do nothing, in the end, that might jeopardize the re-election of the "first AA Pres.". So beating down a potential rival with a dead prog icon is just the ticket ....

If I were there, i would have beaten her up (at least verbally) but that is why Stein is in the position she is in, and not me :)

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Submitted by jest on

Amy's interview with Stein is more jarring when you compare it to Goodman's interview with Barr when she declared her candidacy. No hardball questions, it was a PR piece. It was a good interview though, I enjoyed it. But Barr came off as a a complete angel, when she clearly is not...

At the GP Convention, Stein's camp kind of picked up on Goodman's skepticism of their campaign also, but Dr. Stein handled it with grace.

But yes, I find it hard to listen to DN these days. Free Speech Radio News is still quite good, because they haven't had the same "evolution" DN has had.

But again, I'm not sure if it is Amy Goodman, or management. Maybe both. I don't know. But clearly something is different over there...

Submitted by Aquifer on

IMO, because she clearly did not see her as a threat to Obama and being nice to a 3rd partier would give her cred among the growing(?) ranks of DN skeptics. Stein, however, is a different story - she has real potential to eat into the left support that keeps being told it has "nowhere else to go" and so is seen as a "threat". Maybe AG was hoping that Barr would get the nod, feeling that would marginalize the Greens. Goodman waited a long time before getting Stein on, and even then headlined it as Honkala being picked as VP. I suspect if she had her druthers, Stein wouldn't have been on at all .... Talking about the effect of 3rd parties in the abstract is fine - all warm and fuzzy as long as it stays in the abstract. Come out with a real one, with a credible candidate and a good platform and the fangs come out ...

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Submitted by par4 on

"coverage" of Syria is vomit inducing. I find myself changing channels before the show is over.

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Submitted by jest on

But trying to expose lefties to what DN! has become is like trying to convince Democrats that Obama isn't that into them.

They just shout you down, and deny all the facts that are in front of them.

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