# Quote — Amy Goodman, The Exception To The Rulers

> Media should not be a tool only of the powerful. The media can be a platform for the most important debates of our day: war and peace, freedom and tyranny. The debate must be wide-ranging not just a narrow discussion between Democrats and Republicans embedded in the establishment. We need to break open the box, tear down the boundaries that currently define acceptable discussion. We need a democratic media.

- 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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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-goodman/the-exception-to-the-rulers/media-should-not

## 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.

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