Exception to the Rulers

Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them

In The Exception to the Rulers, award-winning journalists Amy and David Goodman expose the lies, corruption, and crimes of the power elite, an elite bolstered by large media conglomerates. Their goal is “to go where the silence is, to give voice to the silenced majority.”

This audio book includes numerous archival audio excerpts, including filmmaker Michael Moore, civil liberties victims describing their harrowing ordeals in the United States after 9/11, correspondent Jeremy Scahill, poet Martín Espada, death row prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, and much more.

About the author

Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated columnist, author and the host of Democracy Now! airing on more than 1,000 public television and radio stations in 35 countries. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media." The Independent of London named Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! "an inspiration"; pulsemedia.org placed Goodman at the top of their 20 Top Global Media Figures. Goodman is the author of four New York Times bestsellers. Her latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier, proves the power of independent journalism in the struggle for a better world. She co-authored the first three bestsellers, Standing Up to the Madness, Static, and The Exception to the Rulers, with her brother, journalist David Goodman. For more information about Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!, please visit democracynow.org.

David Goodman is an award-winning independent journalist and the author of five books. He is a contributing writer for Mother Jones, and his articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Outside, Washington Quarterly, Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, the Nation, Newsday, the Village Voice, National Geographic Adventure, and numerous other publications.

Video

Part 2 0f 6 segments of Amy Goodman’s speech addressing a Media Education Foundation conference deals with the 2004 coup in Haiti, covered in Exception to the Rulers:

Reviews

“Goodman's vision for media's role in society is as vigorous as her confidence in the power of motivated communities.”
—Brendan Driscoll, Booklist

“If you want chapter and verse on the links between Big Business and the Bush administration; between the corporations and corrupt totalitarian regimes around the world, and all of them with the media in the U.S.: this is the book to read.”
—Derek McMillan, Helium
Read the full review at: http://www.helium.com/items/279302-book-reviews-exception-to-the-rulers-...

“Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights.”
—Noam Chomsky

“A gadfly's life in these turbulent times is neither restful nor boring, and Goodman's perspective on events like genocidal massacres in East Timor and mainstream coverage of the Jessica Lynch rescue is both important and alarming.”
—Karen Holt, Publishers Weekly
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