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This page contains all of the posts and discussion on MemeStreams referencing the following web page: Democracy Now! | Bill Moyers Responds to CPB's Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias: . You can find discussions on MemeStreams as you surf the web, even if you aren't a MemeStreams member, using the Threads Bookmarklet.

Democracy Now! | Bill Moyers Responds to CPB's Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias:
by Decius at 10:10 am EDT, May 17, 2005

] One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues
] and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of
] Beltway journalism. Those rules divide the world into
] democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives
] and allow journalists to pretend they have done their
] job if, instead of reporting the truth behind the news,
] they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the
] news.

...

] Hear me: 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.
] And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind
] of orthodoxy can kill us, too.

This is quite a rant...


 
RE: Democracy Now! | Bill Moyers Responds to CPB's Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias:
by noteworthy at 11:45 pm EDT, May 17, 2005

Decius wrote:
] This is quite a rant...

Note that this Democracy Now! link provides excerpts from the as-delivered speech.

The full text (and audio, and streaming video) of Bill Moyers' as-prepared speech to the National Conference for Media Reform is available online at

http://www.freepress.net/news/8120

In terms of quantity, it's 5.5 pages (for the as-delivered excerpts) and 7.5 pages (for the complete as-prepared speech). But the two versions are sufficiently different that it's worth looking at both of them.


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