âGo to Where the Silence Isâ An interview with Amy Goodman on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, an award-winning daily news program now airing on more than 1,500 public and community radio and television stations around the world. Goodman has co-authored six New York Times bestsellers, most recently Q: Democracy Now! is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary on February 19. Tell us where the program has gone during the past quarter-century. Â Amy Goodman: When I first got the call to host Democracy Now!, I was at a safe house, covering the elections in Haiti. And there, people who announced for office would often be gunned down. People who went to the polls could be killed, but still the vast majority of Haitians would vote.