Democracy Now

Democracy Now (own spelling: Democracy Now! ) Is an American political magazine on non-commercial radio . Democracy Now wants to give a voice to marginalized people and issues that do not appear in the US mass media . The program is being broadcast internationally by over 700 radio, television and internet stations. The program, which has chosen the claim The war and peace report , is produced by the radio network Pacifica Radio .

Democracy Now was founded on February 19, 1996 by journalists led by Amy Goodman and Juan González . Goodman is also the show's main presenter. The magazine is politically independent and financed through donations.

history

The magazine was originally broadcast on the WBAI station in New York . Around 2001 it was temporarily only available through WFMU (under the name Democracy Now In Exile ) due to a conflict over the journalistic direction of WBAI . The broadcasting center was then moved to the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) in a former fire station in Chinatown (New York City). It was here that the magazine began being broadcast as a television program. In November 2009, the broadcast studio moved to a building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan .

content

Senior Editor and Presenter Amy Goodman, 2016

The program includes features , interviews , debates , book, film and theater reviews, and historical reviews of predominantly political events in the United States and around the world , among other things . When it comes to international issues, a reference to the United States is usually made. There was extensive coverage of the Iraq war , the Blackwater company , the presidential elections in the United States in 2008 , 2012 and 2016 , Hurricane Katrina, the situation in East Timor and Haiti and the Middle East conflict .

Other topics that are regularly reported on are peace and labor movements , freedom of expression , human rights , minorities , migration , gender , unlawful police violence and environmental policy . Democracy Now often reveals perspectives that are barely illuminated in mainstream media.

A special feature of the program are the detailed discussions with guests from areas such as journalism, art, politics, religion, science, the military or the peace movement. All conversations are documented as a transcript on the broadcast website.

program

A one-hour issue of Democracy Now is published every day from Monday to Friday . The program usually begins with a ten-minute introductory part with short messages, also available in Spanish . This is followed by the main topics, mostly with guests and interviews. The program is not interrupted by commercial advertising ; Instead, there are two to three musical breaks in various styles, from folk songs à la Sara Thomsen's Is It For Freedom to rap tracks in the style of Public Enemys Fight The Power , which in the video version are often supplemented by clips that match the topic of the contribution.

The program is designed as a TV news magazine, but has a very large word content and is most widely distributed as a radio broadcast. Many NPR public radio stations broadcast Democracy Now .

Awards

• In 1998, Jeremy received Scahill and Amy Goodman for the radio documentary Drilling and Killing. Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship received the George Polk Award .

• In 2008, Amy Goodman received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”) for “Developing an Innovative Model of Truly Independent Political Journalism” .

Distribution channels

The broadcast, licensed under Creative Commons , can be viewed free of charge on the official website as a webcast , heard as an audio stream or downloaded in audio format, including torrenting . The scripts and an archive of the contributions can also be found on the website. In the United States, the magazine can also be received via satellite on Free Speech TV and Link TV .

In Germany you can receive Democracy Now on the free radios Radio Dreyeckland , Free Radio Wiesental , Radio Unerhört Marburg and on Alex Offener Kanal Berlin . The political magazine can be watched as a television broadcast on the citizens and education channel TIDE TV .

In Austria , the magazine is broadcast on the participatory television channels Okto and FS1 and the independent radios Radiofabrik , Freirad and Radio Helsinki .

The broadcast can be seen across Europe via satellite.

Web links

• Democracy Now website
• Democracy Now in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Village Voice : A Dose of Democracy, Now . January 15, 2002
2. ^ Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Farewell to the Firehouse: After 8 Years at Downtown Community Television Landmark, Democracy Now! Moves to New Home . In: Democracy Now! . November 13, 2009. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
3. ^ Spanish version of the Democracy Now website
4. ↑ See the website of Sara Thomsen (album Fertile Ground, 1999)
5. ↑ Creative Commons : Democracy Now! - now under a Creative Commons license . November 19, 2008
6. ↑ Okto ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Homepage.  
7. ↑ Broadcast page Democracy Now fs1.tv, accessed on April 21, 2017
8. ^ Democracy Now: International Stations .
9. ↑ EuroBird (28 ° East) on Edge Media - Controversial TV - Sky Channel 200 ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .