{"id":7040015,"date":"2026-08-17T00:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/the-journalist-who-terrifies-corporate-america-ash-sarkar-meets-amy-goodman-founder-of-democracy-now\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:20:18","slug":"the-journalist-who-terrifies-corporate-america-ash-sarkar-meets-amy-goodman-founder-of-democracy-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7040015","title":{"rendered":"The Journalist Who Terrifies Corporate America | Ash Sarkar meets Amy Goodman, founder of Democracy Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"post-content\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The genocide of Palestinians, carried out by the Israeli army with backing from the US and the British state, has lead to an almighty breakdown in public trust in the West. Now more than ever, citizens are turning away from establishment media sources in search of journalism that more closely resembles the world as we see it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week on Downstream, Ash Sarkar sits down with Amy Goodman, veteran journalist and founder of Democracy Now!, one of the leading independent media organisations in the US. Goodman is the subject of a new film, Steal This Story, Please!, which documents her storied career covering some of the most consequential moments in American living history. She has confronted sitting presidents, bore firsthand witness to 9\/11, survived a firing squad in East Timor and exposed major corporate crime in the Niger Delta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What drives Amy to do the work she does \u2013 shining light on humanity\u2019s darkness, decade after decade? How did her Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn inform her work? 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