# Quote — Amy Goodman, The Exception To The Rulers

> It's still much the same. On any given day, you can listen to the news on CNN or National Public Radio, then tune in to a Pacifica station. You would think you were hearing reports from different Planets. We inhabit the same planet, but we see it through different lenses.

- Author: [Amy Goodman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-goodman.md)
- Book: [The Exception To The Rulers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-goodman/the-exception-to-the-rulers.md)
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## More from this book

> Vibrant debate and dissent exist in this country, but you are not reading or hearing about this in the mainstream press.

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> Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful. It is the best reason I know to carry our pens, cameras, and microphones into our own communities and out to the wider world.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-goodman/the-exception-to-the-rulers/going-to-where.md)

> The same could be said of Henry Kissinger. While many in the United States still see Nixon and Ford's former secretary of state as an elder statesman, the rest of the world sees him as a war criminal responsible for the deaths and suffering of millions in Chile, Vietnam, Laos, Argentina, East Timor, and Cambodia, to name a few.

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