“A democracy can die of too many lies”
Television journalist Bill Moyers blasts flag-wearing phonies, reporters who parrot the government line, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s “dangerous” campaign to silence dissenting voices. Salon.com features an address given by Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis, Mo., on Sunday.
Making PBS as “fair and balanced” as Fox
Critics blast the CPB’s unprecedented move to hire competing, “Crossfire”-style ombudsmen, saying the move is intended to make public broadcasting toe a right-wing line.
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From Lisa Rein: Jon Stewart on The Daily Show covers CNN covering the news by reading aloud blogs on air: “…the kind of frank, uncensored discussion and tenacious fact checking sorely lacking on cable news channels.” The Daily Show on BloggingAs for mainstream TV news blogs?”… giving voice to the already voiced.”
According to the BBC, two out of every 100 people suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Go ahead and take the the Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory OCD Screening Test if you’re a little worried about that habit of counting to 50 before stepping up onto the Franklin train to Back Bay or checking the latch on [...]
