wrote Neo-Kommie Propaganda

DEMOCRACY NOW is the best on the list. Host Amy Goodman is one of the
best journalist in America.

"Amy Goodman is an extraordinary journalist, in the grand American tradition
of Lincoln Steffens, Heywood Broun, I.F. Stone," said Howard Zinn, a Marxist
historian and frequent guest on Democracy Now! "Her contribution to our
culture is unique, bringing information and ideas to her listeners which
they cannot see in the major media."

Zinn is correct. And Democracy Now! proudly posts his quote at its web site.

I.F. Stone was a longtime radical who devoted the last years of his life to
undermining America's war against Communism in Southeast Asia. Heywood Broun
ran for congress as a socialist but was later expelled from the Socialist
Party because of his closeness to Communist Party members and his membership
in Communist front groups. "A one-time admirer of Mussolini and his Fascist
regime, [Lincoln] Steffens did as much as any American to swing the
idealistic youth of the thirties toward what Max Eastman called the
'pro-Soviet parade,'" wrote Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley in his 1998 history
Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the
1930s and 1940s. "Steffens told Marxist scholar Sidney Hook that his own
motive for supporting Communism was emotional, that he had given up trying
to think things out and simply 'felt' that the Communists were right." As a
journalist, Steffens whitewashed atrocities committed by the Soviet Union.

Amy Goodman fits almost perfectly into the tradition of these
Marxist-socialist propagandists. The difference is that Goodman has had the
skill, entrepreneurial or exploitative, to make herself a millionairess.

To decipher and deconstruct the cult of Democracy Now!, note that key
figures around Goodman such as radio producer Mike Burke and television
producers Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press and John Hamilton all have
backgrounds in Indymedia, a leftwing Internet movement steeped in the views
of radical political cult figure Noam Chomsky. Nogueira also has written
for the Chomskyite Z Magazine.

Chomsky, a linguist at the Masschusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
teaches that the United States is the successor to Nazi Germany, that the
Holocaust might never have happened, that Communists are better than
capitalists, and that Western democracy is fraudulent because corporations
"manufacture consent" through media manipulation.

In June 2002 Democracy Now! became a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization
independent of Pacifica Radio. It continues to air on Pacifica-owned and
affiliated stations. It is satellite-uplinked via the Pacifica Satellite
System, but also via the taxpayer-subsidized Public Radio Satellite System
(PRSS).

"Democracy Now! is funded entirely through contributions from listeners,
viewers, and foundations," says its web site. "We do not accept advertisers,
donations from corporations, or donations from governments. This allows us
to maintain our independence."

But serious questions have arisen about how Democracy Now! developed with
the resources of Pacifica Radio and grants from the Carnegie Corporation,
the Ford Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund and others - suddenly in 2002 became
independent and the effective property of Amy Goodman without any recompense
to Pacifica. This transfer included valuable assets such as trademarks,
ownership of years of archived programs and interviews, affiliate station
access and more.

And through a contract that remains secret, Amy Goodman is also receiving $1
million per year for a five year period that began in 2002, according to
Pacifica Treasurer Jabari Zakiya, to continue doing what has become
Pacifica's flagship morning news program. Goodman also is able to use a
tax-exempt radio program and taxpayer-subsidized public radio satellite
transponder to promote what may be her for-profit book and other lucrative
activities.

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Democracy Now! receives indirect funding from George Soros,
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in....asp?indid=977
and direct funding from Soros' Open Society Institute,
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/fu...asp?fndid=5181
the Glaser Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation,
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/fu...asp?fndid=5184
the Public Welfare Foundation,
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/fu...98&category=79
the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy,
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/fu...83&category=79
and other left-leaning foundations.