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SALT LAKE CITY — Many journalists revere her, some politicians and countries fear her, but she is looking for the truth and will do anything to find it, put a light on it, and force the masses to see what isn’t being shown. In the documentary, “Steal This Story Please!,” they follow Democracy Now! reporter Amy Goodman.
Amy has won the George Polk Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, the Right Livelihood Award (widely known as the Alternative Nobel Prize — the first journalist ever to receive it), the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award from Harvard’s Nieman Foundation, the Thomas Merton Award, the Gandhi Peace Award, the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship, the Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence, the American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award, the Paley Center for Media’s She’s Made It Award, the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, and the first-ever Communication for Peace Award from the World Association for Christian Communication…