Last night the Public Broadcasting System aired a searing documentary on media complicity with the Bush administration leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It marks the return of Bill Moyers's Journal and represents the kind of groundbreaking reporting that the nonprofit network was expected to deliver when it was launched in 1969, during the height of another imperialist war.
Bill Moyers is an interesting figure. As press secretary to Lyndon Johnson, he turned against the kind of party politics that produces such wars and hooked up with PBS in 1971. Like Ramsey Clark, LBJ's attorney general, he has been an effective voice for the left even if his ideas stop short of the anti-capitalist conclusions that are implicit in their dynamic. Along with Ralph Nader, these three elder statesmen of the liberal-left know how the system operates from inside and often have unique insights about the rot contained in its heart, as last night's documentary demonstrates. full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/bill-moyers-versus-the-la pdog-media/
