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STATIC Also by Amy Goodman and David Goodman STATIC Also by Amy Goodman and David Goodman The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them Amy Goodman and David Goodman STATIC Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back New York Excerpt from Gedichte, Vol. 4, by Bertolt Brecht, copyright 1961 Suhrkamp Verlag, reprinted by permission of Suhrkamp Verlag. Excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” reprinted by arrangement with the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr, c/o Writers House as agent for the proprietor, New York, NY. Copyright 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr., copyright renewed 1991 Coretta Scott King. “Be Nobody’s Darling,” by Alice Walker, reprinted by permission of the author. Excerpt of “Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy,” by Arundhati Roy, reprinted by permis- sion of the author. Parts of Chapter 14, “Anti-Warriors,” originally appeared in the article “Breaking Ranks,” by David Goodman, Mother Jones, November/December 2004. Copyright © 2006 Amy Goodman and David Goodman Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 1-4013-8610-5 1. United States—Politics and government—2001– . 2. United States—Foreign relations—2001– . 3. Mass media—Political aspects—United States. 4. Political activists—United States. I. Goodman, David. II. Title. first eBook edition To our late grandparents, Benjamin and Sonia Bock Solomon and Gertrude Goodman Immigrants all Who fled persecution seeking a kinder, more just world Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Unembedded 1 SECTION I: LIARS AND CHEERLEADERS 1 : Outlaw Nation 17 2 : Watching You 46 3 : News Fakers 62 4 : Unreality TV 73 5 : The Mighty Wurlitzer 90 6 : Hijacking Public Media 100 7 : Whitewashing Haiti 113 8 : Witch Hunt 132 9 : The Torturers’ Apprentice 149 10 : Exporting Abuse 168 11 : Unembedded in Fallujah 189 12 : Oil Profiteers 199 SECTION II: FIGHTING BACK 13 : Cindy’s Crawford 209 14 : Anti-Warriors 222 15 : Human Wrongs 244 viii CONTENTS 16 : Bravo Bush! 257 17 : We Interrupt This Program . 271 Conclusion: Voices of Hope and Resistance 292 Notes 309 Index 328 Acknowledgments We are grateful for all the inspired interference we have had to help us create Static. Mike Burke, a producer at Democracy Now!, has provided us with invaluable support as an editor and researcher on this project. Barely flinching when the hours grew late, Mike has helped us to ferret out the stories and people that form the heart of this book. Denis Moynihan is the master of keeping everything—and us— on track. We are grateful for the countless talents, good humor, and intelligence that he brings to all he does. We are grateful to Peternelle van Arsdale, our editor at Hyper- ion, whose insightful feedback has made this a better book. Thanks also to Christine Ragasa for her talent at letting the world (and bookstores) know about our book. And thanks to the folks who have been cheerleaders (the good kind) for our writing: Bob Miller, president of Hyperion, and editor in chief Will Schwalbe. Thanks also to Katie Wainwright, Jane Comins, Claire McKean, and Miriam Wenger. Thanks to our agent, Luke Janklow, an enthusiastic match- maker for our efforts. And to Anthony Arnove, our talented and wise foreign agent and friend. From Amy: The staff of Democracy Now! works tirelessly every day (and night and weekend) to find the creative resisters, whistle- blowers, and activists who are on the air every day. A huge and x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS humble thanks to Karen Ranucci, co-host Juan Gonzalez, and to producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous, John Hamilton, Mattie Harper, Frank Lopez, Aaron Mate, Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press, Yoruba Richen, and Jeremy Scahill. Thanks also to Angela Alston, Taishon Black, Jerome Bourgeois, Russell Branca, Mike Castleman, Saman- tha Chamblee, Ting Ting Cheng, Jim Carlson, Andres Conteris, Julie Crosby, Mike Di Filippo, Jenny Filippazzo, Uri Gal-Ed, Nell Geiser, Robby Karran, Angie Karran, Mike Kimber, Kieran Krug- Meadows, Jory Leanza-Cary, Errol Maitland, Nick Marcilio, Peter Yoon, Jillian O’Connor, Edith Penty, Isis Phillips, Jon Randolph, Dave Rice, Orlando Richards, Chuck Scurich, Neil Shibata, Nikki Smirl, Danielle Strandburg-Peshkin, Keiko Takayama, Jen Utz, Bernard White, Megan Whitney, Suha Yazji, and Chris Zucker. Thanks to my colleagues at Link TV, Free Speech TV, public ac- cess and public TV stations, and public and low-power FM stations around the country. My gratitude especially to colleagues at the Pacifica stations—WBAI, KPFK, WPFW, KPFT, and KPFA. All of these people carry the torch high for independent media. Thanks to Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno of Downtown Commu- nity TV, who provide a home for Democracy Now! in countless ways. Thanks also to Israel Taub, Michael Ratner, Patrick Lannan, Jaune Evans, Laurie Betlach, and Andy Tuch for their essential support. We honor the memory of the late great Damu Smith, founder of Black Voices for Peace. We will miss him, but his contributions will live on. For their friendship, Caren Spruch, Elisabeth Benjamin, Dan Coughlin, Maria Carrion, Diana Cohn and Brenda Murad, and to the little and not-so-little ones, Ariel and Jasper, Anna, Sarah and Eli, Sara and Aliza, Rory and Cecilia, Leila and Maria, Andrew and Valentina, Maren, Fergus, Maeve, Sesa, Gabriela, and Dakota. And to David, whose patience, skill, humanity, and determination made this book happen...once again. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi From David: My gratitude to the late David Weber, my musical mentor, who taught me the meaning of bel canto. And thanks to my sister Amy, for putting her heart and soul into the remarkable work that she does every day, from which so many of us draw strength. Thanks to my family, Ariel and Jasper, whose love, soccer tournaments, and music lessons lure me back home from my writ- ing sojourns. And to my wife and love, Sue, who has always been, and will always be, my muse and inspiration. Finally, we are grateful to our family: brothers Dan and Steve Goodman have always lent an ear and good advice when we need it most. Our mother, Dorrie Goodman, amazes us with her en- ergy, travels, insights, food, and love. She and our late father, George, have taught and inspired us to make the world a better place. We hope this book (of which she has read every word sev- eral times) helps create the static to do just that. STATIC Introduction: Unembedded Either you are with us, or with the terrorists. —President George W. Bush, addressing Congress, September 20, 2001 As Hurricane Katrina ripped into America’s Gulf Coast in late Au- gust 2005, the Bush administration had a crisis on its hands. Not the tens of thousands of people who had been abandoned in downtown New Orleans. Not the levees that had been breached, drowning the city. No, the big disaster that the Bush administration acted decisively to solve was its loss of control over the news media. Images were coming out of New Orleans of a disaster of biblical proportions— and a federal response that ranged from inept to nonexistent to bla- tantly racist. So the administration acted on instinct: The Federal Emer- gency Management Agency (FEMA) requested that the media not photograph the dead bodies that were floating down the main boulevards of New Orleans. The military followed by announcing a “zero access” policy for journalists.1 A FEMA spokesman said it was “out of respect for the deceased” and their families.2 This was the same rationale President Bush used to justify the administra- tion’s ban on photographing the caskets of soldiers returning from Iraq. FEMA was forced to back down in the face of a lawsuit by CNN. For one horrifying week at the end of August 2005, the world was treated to something it had rarely seen: an unembedded American press showing raw footage of human suffering. The Bush administration’s insistence that it had the crisis under control 2 STATIC fell flat, as on-the-ground reporters, literally floating free of gov- ernment handlers, presented the devastation and the failed re- sponse in real time. The world was shown photos of abandoned African-American residents of New Orleans struggling to survive the floods, alongside images of Bush in California on August 30— the day after he was informed that the New Orleans levees had broken—chuckling and riffing on a guitar given to him by country singer Mark Wills, whose signature hit, “Wish You Were Here,” could have been the Katrina victims’ theme song. With one un- scripted, uncensored image, the entire Bush presidency was cap- tured: Bush strummed while New Orleans drowned. This was the response of an American leader to a long-forecast calamity. As even the Republican investigation into the Katrina re- sponse noted, “It remains difficult to understand how government could respond so ineffectively to a disaster that was anticipated for years, and for which specific dire warnings had been issued for days. This crisis was not only predictable, it was predicted.”3 But top Bush administration officials simply didn’t care. For years, these antigovernment zealots had preached that the federal government could do no good. When Katrina hit, we saw a self- fulfilling prophecy play out, as the Bush administration suddenly had to rely on the inept political hacks and gutted federal agencies that it had substituted for the functioning bureaucracies that once existed. There was also the cold political calculus: The victims on the Gulf Coast were just too black and too poor for their suffering to register high on the priority list for this administration. What else can explain the behavior of America’s leaders during the days when a major American city was being destroyed? President Bush was vacationing at his Texas ranch.
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