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Keith Olberman reported on May 1, 2009 on an academic study published by researchers from The Ohio State University, entitled “The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report.” The study looked at The Colbert Report, the popular “fake news” program, by asking people to view the Colbert segment from Oct. 5, 2006, when Colbert interviewed Amy about her book, Static.
More...KXCI and Access Tucson organize a packed benefit on Sunday night in Tucson
More...Amy Goodman speaking in Phoenix, Tucson today, broadcasting from Tucson on Monday
More...Amy speaks with Robert Scheer at an event hosted by Truthdig.com, which posts Amy’s column every week.
More...The head of the Riverside Church Council is defending a more than $600,000-a-year package for the church’s new senior minister–a setup that has sparked a court fight among members of the congregation.
More...Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald received the first annual Izzy Award for Special Achievement in Independent Media.
More...Amy Goodman and her brother David spoke at a benefit for KUSP, community radio in Santa Cruz, CA. Here the crowd sings Happy Birthday to Amy as she makes her way to the podium.
More...Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez spoke at the University of Texas at Austin about the future of the media.
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From The Black World Today “Outside the New World Stages in midtown Manhattan, above in the heavens, a lunar eclipse held hundreds of stargazers breathless. Inside the entertainment palace, Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson, Dick Gregory, and coterie of well-known writers left folks in awe as they appeared to support Democracy Now’s mission to build a new home.”
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