NOW with Bill Moyers. Journal – Bill Moyers on the Media and Democracy | PBS. Watch the clip from his show, “Now” (which is rapidly becoming my favorite show!). Also of interest is his site on Big Media Overview.
“media conglomeration … can take the oxygen out of democracy. The founders of this country believed a free and rambunctious press was essential to the protection of our freedoms. They couldn’t envision the rise of giant megamedia conglomerates whose interests converge with state power to produce a conspiracy against the people. I think they would be aghast at how this union of media and government has produced the very kind of imperial power against which they rebelled. So, yes, media conglomeration has become a beat for my colleagues and me. We think this is the most important story of all, the one that determines what other stories get told – and how.”
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