Award-winning Journalist, Amy Goodman, to Appear in Huntsville, September 16

Amy Goodman, host of the nationally broadcast daily radio/TV news hour Democracy Now!, will speak at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on Friday, September 16, 7:30 p.m., at Chan Auditorium of the Administrative Science building.   Goodman is familiar to TV viewers as a frequent commentator on MSNBC’s Hardball and on CNN.  She will talk about the lies of politicians and the corruption of media monopolies. These are also the topics of her best-selling book, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them. The editors of Publishers Weekly chose The Exception to the Rulers as one of the Top 50 Nonfiction books of 2004, and Booksense.com chose it as the top non-fiction book of the 2004 Election Season. Her talk in Huntsville will be her first Alabama appearance. On the following evening, she will present in Birmingham. 

Awards
Goodman's journalism awards include the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award, the Armstrong Award, the Radio/Television News Directors Award, as well as awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. One of her 1998 documentaries won the George Polk Award, the Golden Reel for Best National Documentary from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and a Project Censored award.

Democracy Now!
In 1996, Goodman helped launch Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! Today, this program is an award-winning, national, daily radio and TV news hour, pioneering the largest public media collaboration in North America. It is broadcast nationally on over 300 radio and TV stations in North America, including Free Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH network (satellite TV), Link TV, channel 375 Direct TV and channel 9410 DISH network.  The show also can be viewed at www.democracynow.org.

Sponsors
This event is sponsored by three UAH programs (Women's Studies, Communication Arts Department, International Programs), and by the North Alabama Peace Network and other community organizations.

Reception
A reception to meet Goodman will be held at the Union Grove Meeting Hall and Gallery, next to Morton Hall, from 6-7 p.m.  Admission to the reception costs $30 and requires advance reservations.  For reservations, phone 256-824-6210 and leave a message.

Admission
Admission is free and open to the public.  For more information, contact Linda Haynes, 256-489-3884, or lahaynes@knology.net.
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