Amy Goodman's 'Empire'

Here is an article about the incredible Amy Goodman slated to appear in the upcoming article of The Nation. It opens with what Goodman was doing when the 9/11 attacks occurred and how the "war on terrorism" ushered in an unprecedented growth for her progressive-oriented show "Democracy Now!" From the measely 25 radio stations and internet broadcasting on 9/11/2001, Democracy Now! currently airs on over 330 Pacifica, NPR and community radio stations, cable access TV and PBS stations, and on DishTV and Direct TV satellite networks, and they do video and audio streaming on-line.

Here's the story.
Amy Goodman's 'Empire'
by LIZZY RATNER

[from the May 23, 2005 issue of The Nation]

Amy Goodman didn't know if anyone was listening.

It was the morning of September 11, 2001, and the host of the muckraking radio news program Democracy Now! was broadcasting from her studio in a converted firehouse just blocks from the World Trade Center. She was hunched over her microphone, intent on painting an audio portrait of the "horrific scene of explosions and fires," but the truth was she didn't know if anyone could hear her. The phone lines were dead or temporarily blocked, and she had already overshot her slated hourlong broadcast time. More serious, she had recently been banished from her professional home at Pacifica Radio after a hostile internal shake-up, and she was only being aired by twenty or so affiliate stations.

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