Which is why we need the Amy Goodmans, the Fairness Doctrine, public access laws for cable, the internet, and a robust independent news and citizen journalist movement, which is currently thriving in the US.

Besides the indie news program Democracy Now, there is Free Speech TV, Indymedia, Reporters Without Borders, News University, an absolutely free online indie & citizen journalism school sponsored by the Poytner Institute (they publish Congressional Quarterly), lots of great stuff is out there.

If you still get your so-called news from mainstream media, including the online newspapers, you aren't getting the news. It really is that simple, nowadays.

Indie and citizen journalists are making great inroads against the supposed "lock" on news and information by establishment press.

And Amy Goodman is proof of that.