Jon Stewart

I have to tell you, Amy, you know, I am a just longtime admirer of what you do.

Whenever my frustrations over, you know, what we consider mainstream news and the criticisms I have, it always sort of, it comes back to, I mean, look at Amy Goodman.

Look what Amy Goodman does.

Why can't they do that?

And it strikes me that it's because the axis that you work under, and you tell me if this is even mildly accurate, they seem to focus on right, left.

You seem to focus on power, no power, voice, no voice.

And is that what makes it, is that what grounds it and makes the work so essential to

And it's incredible how, you know, you bring up such a, I think an interesting point about there is a prototype or a boilerplate that modern media follows.

And I understand television has to be producible, but where it's, you know, we give a brief, a bit of information, and then the rest of the time is filled out by people who don't really have firsthand experience or witness experience of,

Your work and Democracy Now's work feels like you get the information, not the analysis, that so much of media now is just easily produced, shallow analysis.

But the information is what's actually crucial and necessary to expose these stories.

And people don't see these stories.

It really is a tree falls in the forest.

And if nobody is there to hear it, they don't.

But you are wandering the forest recording these trees falling.

There's a great

moment in the film, and I say great meaning illustrative, not great in that it was awful.

You're in Indonesia and East Timor, East Timor, and American weapons are being used by the army to slaughter civilians.

Protesters.

And you're there.