National Public Radio celebrated radical left-wing journalist Amy Goodman, host of the Pacifica Radio show Democracy Now! on Saturday’s Weekend Edition with “‘Steal This Story, Please!’ puts journalist Amy Goodman in the spotlight.”  The doc’s title is based on what Arts Desk correspondent Mandalit del Barco calls 60's radical Abbie Hoffman’s “revolutionary handguide” Steal This Book.For more than 30 years, independent journalist Amy Goodman has reported from around the globe. Democracy Now!, the show she co-created and co-hosts, runs online and on public and community TV and radio stations. Now, Goodman is the subject of a documentary that's been distributed independently and has been selling out its last theatrical screenings before it moves to streaming in the fall.The film shows how Goodman is always on the move, always asking questions. That's apparent even in the opening scene, as she pursues Donald Trump's then-climate adviser Wells Griffith during the 2018 United Nations Climate Summit.In NPR's world, "always asking questions" means always hassling Trump Administration officials. (Check out the show’s social media feed (it’s of course popular among the Bluesky Brigade) for a taste of its worldview.)The documentary shows Goodman questioning other people in power, and talking with people on the ground, during times of social and political unrest.The film’s executive producer is Jane Fonda, who has no credibility talking about the First Amendment or any other American freedom.Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal explained:"We started making it in earnest after the president in his first term proclaimed that the press was the enemy of the people, which was just outrageous and chilling," says Lessin.….the film's title is taken from one of Democracy Now's missions: Steal This Story — to dare other media outlets to cover the stories they do.The film includes 30 years of archival footage from Democracy Now! including Goodman facing down soldiers in Nigeria and reporting on Native Americans protesting an oil pipeline in North Dakota.The closest NPR got to criticism was to frame a generic (and accurate) observation as harsh, then allow Goodman’s supporters to quash it.Some of her critics call her a left-wing activist. But to her supporters, Goodman's journalism is uncompromising — rooted in her refusal to take any government funding, corporate sponsorship, underwriting or advertising revenue for her show.No government funding? Up until last year, the five Pacifica Radio stations received (combined) about $1 million a year in federal funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.Reporter del Barco revealed her own Pacifica past:[Radio producer Dave] Isay says he owes much of his career to Goodman— he ditched medical school to go into radio after she encouraged him to pursue a story other news outlets rejected. Goodman has mentored many other journalists too. In fact, Isay and I both met her in the late 1980s at the Pacifica radio station in New York where she produced the evening news.At the Democracy Now! studio in Manhattan, my editor and I meet up with Goodman, who I have not seen in years. I remind her she taught me how to cut tape with a razor blade and splicing tape on the old reel-to-reel tape recorders back in the day, at WBAI.Goodman was quoted: "I've always believed that those who care about war and peace, who care about racial and economic justice, who care about LGBTQ issues and the anti-immigrant crackdown, who care about climate change, the fate of the planet are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority….It just doesn't hit the corporate media radar screen."Really? As if the gender alphabet, ICE in Minnesota, and Greta Thunberg are being totally ignored by the elitist "corporate media"?One recent example of Goodman’s out-there views was her interview supporting the gender hysteria of actor Elliott Page, the former Ellen Page (and still a biological female).The New York Times actually got to the Steal This Story, Please! hagiography first, back in April.