Amy Goodman, host of the nationally syndicated public radio and TV news hour “Democracy Now”, will be in Fresno on Wednesday, April 14, for a talk on “The Exception to the Rulers” at California State University, Fresno.
The event, which is sponsored by KFCF Radio/Fresno Free College Foundation, the Beth Harnish Lectures, and the Campus Peace and Civil Liberties Coalition, will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Satellite Student Union.
Admission is free and open to the public. A fundraiser reception in the Renaissance Room precedes the lecture.
Goodman is touring 70 cities to launch her latest book “Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers and the Media that Love them,” co-authored with her brother, award-winning independent journalist/author David Goodman.
The book’s Web site describes it as a fast-paced 350+ page expose: “Part first-person on¬the-g round reporting, part old-fashioned muckraking, the book chronicles the struggles of what Goodman calls, ‘the silenced majority’.”
Goodman will kick off her nationwide tour with a fundraiser in New York City on April 13 before coming to Fresno, the first stop on the tour.
In addition to her daily show, Goodman has produced award-winning documentaries, winning a Polk Award for a documentary entitled “Killing and Drilling” about the politics of oil in Nigeria.
More recently, she had an exclusive interview with deposed Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide that was carried by major news media such as CNN, CBS and NPR. She also played a key role in publicizing the military attack on citizens in Timor in 1995.
“Democracy Now” airs daily on more than 200 radio and public access TV stations, including locally on KFCF, 88.1 FM, at 6 and 9 a.m.
