The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Goodman spent a year studying at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine. Michael Delli Carpini dean of the Annenberg School for Communication said "She's not an editorialist. Early Life
Amy Goodman was born in Bay Shore New York on April 13 1957 to George an ophthalmologist and Dorothy (née Bock) Goodman.

Goodman is the host of Democracy Now! an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio television and the Internet. Amy Goodman (born April 13 1957) is an American broadcast journalist syndicated columnist investigative reporter and author.