Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!. She
is co-author of the national best-seller The Exception to the Rulers:
Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love
Them written with her brother David Goodman. The book was chosen by
independent bookstores as the #1 political title of the 2004 election
season. The book was also chosen as one of the top 50 nonfiction books
of 2004 by the editors of Publishers Weekly.

Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news
program airing on over 420 stations in North America.  Pioneering the
largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is
broadcast on Pacifica, community, and National Public Radio stations,
public access cable television stations, satellite television (on Free
Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH Network and on Link TV, Ch 9410 on
DishTV and Ch. 375 on DirecTV),  and the internet, where
democracynow.org attracts over 3 million sessions per month.

Democracy Now! is the only daily radio/TV news hour in the US that
exists completely without corporate advertising or underwriting, and
without any government funding.

Session: Grassroots, Netroots, and the End and Beginning of Politics