--- title: Breakfast with Amy Goodman of “Democracy Now!” author: tracey pooh type: post date: 2009-04-18 categories: - politics tags: - news - politics featured: amy-goodman.jpg#top featuredalt: Amy Goodman, Tracey, the Kahles featuredcaption: Amy Goodman, Tracey, the Kahles comment: --- Amy Goodman, host of [Democracy Now](http://democracynow.org)!,  is on tour this month across the country.  She visited San Francisco for two days this week.  My boss, Brewster Kahle from [Internet Archive](https://archive.org), knew that I am a raving fan of Amy and her amazing show of independent journalism. He was kind enough to invite me along to a **long breakfast discussion with Amy**. Brewster and Amy found a common interest on issues of the potential monopoly of Google books, so she scheduled a followup discussion the next day with Brewster on Amy's show "[Democracy Now!](http://www.democracynow.org/)" (for likely broadcasting Apr20-25). In person, Amy is an incredibly sweet and inquisitive individual. She is brilliant as well as thoughtful, generous and full of grace. I was thrilled to meet her in person and see how a part of her day goes. I look up to her tremendously as an [award-winning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Goodman#Recognition) pioneer in the field of journalism. [photo album](/amy/) Oh this made me sooo happy!  😎