Media Reform With Bill Moyers
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January 21st, 2007 by Cliff Lyon 
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January 21st, 2007 by Cliff Lyon Cliff Lyon
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January 21st, 2007 at 7:26 pm
I’m not sure I know enough to comment on the rich/poor divide other than what I have said here, but I agree with almost everything Bill Moyers says. For whatever reason (probably media misinformation) I never imagined myself agreeing with Bill, but I do on this issue. Having just finished “Conservatives without Conscience” I can now understand where Moyers is coming from with regard to the Bush Administration’s suppression into secrecy of so many of their aims, something that the media sources I have previously frequented failed to mention.
I may not agree with his solutions for some of the problems, but I agree that there is definitely something wrong.
I liked his quote: “For some, Patriotism now=blind support for failed leaders”. (We) Conservatives are always claiming that the media is biased, but it’s interesting to see someone on the opposite end of the political spectrum agreeing with me, but for a reason that I hadn’t thought of. Maybe I’m not on the opposite end of the spectrum after all, or maybe the real political spectrum has thinkers at one end and non-thinking “minds full of mush” at the other.
I have often worried and wondered about the oligarchy of the news media. The New American Magazine (John Birch Society) has opined and reported a lot about this reality, but they have been marginalized by “The machine” as lunatic.
It’s ironic that people think that Fox News is a Fair and Balanced alternative. It’s ironic that people think that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are the engineers at the front of the patriotism train. I sometimes wonder if they came along “just in time” when the critical mass of the American people were starting to sense that something was ‘rotten’ in America’s ‘denmark’. His statement about the conservative ringmasters was so apt–(something like) “The poobahs of punditry only have to declare the world is flat for so many of the people to believe it so rather than finding it out for themselves.”
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:30 am
Wow! What an enlightening speach. Cliff, thanks for sharing - I can’t wait to see what happens over the next few years regarding the public domain and sharing it with everyone, unbiased, equally and informative.
January 22nd, 2007 at 7:17 am
Why is it we must force opposing opinions/ideas on others shows? If a liberal wants to make his point heard, why does he have to make it heard on a liberal talk show? Shouldn’t he just get off his ass and make his own show?
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:10 am
Anthony and Diane,
You helped get us here, and you have no idea what I’m talking about.
Thanks
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:30 am
Sure it is great, yet we are going to have to go to outside sources. The memoryhole.org archives stories no longer found in the places they were first written. Control information and you control the “truth”.
The secondary phase of dictatorship is this narrowing of the perspective, through control of info. The fact that we know does not deny the fact that sources for objective relaiable information are drying up in our country. If the majority belives it then it is so.
Right now our incipient bi-partisan dictatorship has managed to get us worrying about whether we are to attack Iran. This enables more obfuscation and shenanigans in Iraq. Once we are at war with Iran, Iraq will become more accepted and forgotten, just like Osama was forgotten when the war in Iraq began.
The realiztion by us that this war and it’s objectives are largely secret and possessed only by the elite dictatoship, that runs us all, is a primary need for us to hold very close to our realities, that we may not be getting relevent information.
Question everything with Qui bono, who benefits, in mind.
January 22nd, 2007 at 11:25 am
Anthony, you mean conservative talk show I assume. We well know a liberal cannot run a talk show, they are incessantly boring, and NPR too, if I have to listen to anymore hillbilly fiddle music I’ll go nuts.
Beware, the dems mean utilize the fairness doctrine to shut up talk radio. We should keep in mind that liberals should be grown ups and run their own programs, and allow the marketplace of ideas determine who is listening.
Sadly for the left they resort now to calling for Mommy to get their points across, instead of attempting to find out where mainstream America lies. It is not where they would like it to be(or myself) and the proof ofthis is the abject failure of Air America. It was like listening to Saturday night live, I was in the Seattle area when it was around, it could make it there, but Seattle isn’t all of America.
The absolute best talk radio station that showcases liberal, conservative and moderate viewpoints is flagship KGO AM of San Francisco, 50k boomer. It’s online and worth a listen. KGO.com, it is about the only station that covers all agendas.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Thanks for finding and sharing this enlightening speech by such a renouned scholar and realistic activist. Not only is it difficult if not impossible to argue with his logic, but it’s just so cool to listen to or read his excellent expression whether spoken or writtten. There are few as good and none better.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I attended the conference in Memphis and a two-day session of “Journalism That Matters,” a diverse and select group of media folks who are determining a new course for corporate and community media. I’d be happy to hear what anyone has to say about this issue, either here or by contacting me at ken@schreinervideo.com. Also check my first submission on this blog today. Thanks.
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