because NPR has a pretense of being liberal or progressive that MSNBC or FOX lack utterly. In fact MSNBC and FOX are actually more ethical because they make no sham of non commercial bias or homespun practicality. these days...as a long time NPR listener but only recent years critic i have to say that National Public Radio is the best place for subversive broadcasting...if you are a republicanor a huge fan of capitalist laissez-faire habits, or spotty and unfair journalism. Moyers is striking out because NPR presents itself as hipper than thou and PC and they with their pledge drives and constant plugging of Big Oil and Globochem.arrgh are utterly and completely privatized, corporate and Republican. It is unfair to view them as the people who made sesame street and nova. None of those people - the old heads we know from teh seventies -- are there any more.
When a company like Clear Chanel does what it has done (become the Ma Bell of radio -- when itcan't get in by legal means it gets in like a corrup politico does -- by greasing palms. trust Merck and Eli Lilly and teh Ford Foundation to continue to bring you Focus on the Family and car talk. mikal x Philly --- Martin Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read this a couple of days ago. Shameful that some > neocon git's trying to cause him trouble by > watchdogging his show closely in search of "bias". Why > doesn't this guy poke around in MSNBC's backyard, or > Fox News? > > Amy Harlib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I saw and heard the whole speech on the Internet and > it is so dead on! > Don't miss this! > > Subject: Fw: Bill Moyers slams right-wing takeover of > public broadcasting > > > > The slam is well deserved. > > > > http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/BBB15FFD38DCFFFB86257003001B326B?OpenDocument > > > > Speech at conference assails right wing > > By Michael D. Sorkin > > Of the Post-Dispatch > > 05/15/2005 > > > > Bill Moyers denounced on Sunday the right wing and > top officials at the > White House, saying they are trying to silence their > critics by controlling > the news media. > > > > He also took aim at reporters who become little more > than willing > government "stenographers." And he said the public > increasingly is content > with just enough news to confirm its own biases. > > > > Moyers spoke in St. Louis at a conference on media > reform. His reports > have appeared on the Public Broadcasting System since > the 1970s. He was an > aide to President Lyndon Johnson and is a former > newspaper publisher. > > > > Moyers said those in power - government officials > and their allies in the > media - mean to stay there by punishing journalists > "who tell the stories > that make princes and priests uncomfortable." > > > > Moyers described those officials as "obsessed with > control" of the media. > He said they are using the government "to threaten and > intimidate." > > > > Moyers answered for the first time recent charges > that public television > in general and he in particular have become too > liberal. > > > > Those charges are from Kenneth Tomlinson, chairman > of the Corporation for > Public Broadcasting, and, in effect, Moyers' boss at > the network. > > > > Tomlinson, a Republican, paid an outside consultant > $10,000 to keep track > of the political leanings of guests on Moyers' show, > "Now." Moyers left the > show last year but is back on public television as > host of the series "Wide > Angle." > > > > Tomlinson, on the recommendation of administration > officials, hired a > senior White House aide to draw up guidelines to > review the content of > public radio and television broadcasts, according to a > report in The New > York Times on May 2. > > > > Tomlinson has denied that he was carrying out a > White House mandate. > > > > Tomlinson complained that Moyers' show was > consistently critical of > Republicans and the Bush administration. He said there > was a "tone deafness" > at PBS headquarters on issues of "tone and balance." > > > > Moyers said he knew his broadcasts have created a > backlash in Washington. > > > > "The more compelling our journalism, the angrier > became the radical right > of the Republican Party," he said. > > > > "That's because the one thing they loath more than > liberals is the truth. > And the quickest way to be damned by them as liberal > is to tell the truth." > > > > Moyers' speech was interrupted by standing ovations > at the Conference for > Media Reform here over the weekend. More than 2,500 > people attended the > three-day conference. > > > > Ernest Wilson III serves with Tomlinson on the board > that oversees public > broadcasting. He said PBS outranks the Fox News > Channel, CNN and all the > broadcast news networks in a survey that asked whom > the public trusts. > > > > "We are, by far, the most 'fair and balanced,'" he > said, a reference to > the motto of Fox News. > > > > Moyers complained that PBS' "liberal" label is > undeserved. > > > > "In contrast to the conservative mantra that public > television routinely > features the voices of establishment critics," he > said, alternative voices > on public television are rare and usually drowned out > by government and > corporate views. > > > > Moyers said that's exactly what the right wing > wants. > > > > "They want your reporting to validate their belief > system, and when it > doesn't God forbid." > > > > He said he always thought that the American eagle > needed both a left wing > and a right wing. "But with two right wings, or two > left wings, it's no > longer an eagle, and it's going to crash." > > > > Moyers said right wingers had attacked him after he > closed a broadcast by > placing a flag in his lapel. > > > > It was the first time that he had worn a flag. He > said he put it on to > remind himself that "not every patriot thinks we > should do to the people of > Baghdad what bin Laden did to us." > > > > "The flag has been hijacked and turned into a logo, > a trademark of a > monopoly on patriotism," Moyers said. > > > > Moyers had harsh words for reporters who simply > recount what officials > say, without scrutinizing what they say and do. > > > > He said New York Times correspondent Judith Miller, > among other reporters, > had relied on official but unnamed sources "when she > served essentially as > the government's stenographer for claims that Iraq > possessed weapons of mass > destruction." > > > > Moyers said he has come to understand that "news is > what people want to > keep hidden and everything else is publicity." > > > > He said that kind of reporting has never been > tougher to do: > > > > "Without a trace of irony, the powers that be have > appropriated the news > speak vernacular of George Orwell's '1984,' giving us > a program, no child > will be left behind, while cutting funds for educating > disadvantaged > children. > > > > "They give us legislation calling for clear skies > and healthy forests" > while "turning over public lands to the energy > industry." > > > > He said the public shares the blame: > > > > "An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a > people fed only > partisan information and opinion that confirm their > own bias, a people made > morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of > propaganda is less > inclined to put up a fight - ask questions and be > skeptical." > > > === message truncated === http://particlezen.proboards7.com/index.cgi the edge of everything. no, really. http://www.deadjournal.com/users/cataleptik/ catal3ptik is a rav3r __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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