[Dialogue] Moyers and media reform

[RICHARD HOWIE]

Thanks Janice,
Bill Moyers is a terrific model for one's sharing of wisdom  
throughout life.
Peace, Ellen
On Jan 12, 2007, at 5:39 PM, Janice Ulangca wrote:

> There are opportunities to get streaming video from this conference  
> that is going on now.  A website to connect:
> www.freepress.net/conference/
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> Janice
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> « New Studies Dismantle Case for Consolidation
> Bill Moyers Takes On Big Media
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> Award winning journalist Bill Moyers opened the National Conference  
> for Media Reform Friday with a pointed speech about the negative  
> influence of corporations on American media and democracy.
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> Before a packed house of more than 3,000 conference goers, Moyers  
> said that the independent press is under sustained attack with a  
> few corporations conspiring with political leaders to create an  
> Orwellian world “in which language conceals reality and the pursuit  
> of personal gain and partisan power are wrapped in rhetoric that  
> turns truth to lies and lies to truth.
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> These forces “have even managed to turn the escalation of a failed  
> war into a surge, as if it were electricity through a wire instead  
> of blood spurting through veins,” Moyers said.
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> Moyers decried the decline of hard hitting journalism. “The  
> question of whether or not our economic system is truly just is off  
> the table for investigation and discussion, so that alternative  
> ideas, alternative critiques, alternative visions never get a  
> hearing,” he said.
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> Evoking the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Moyers compared big  
> media corporations to plantation owners and American media  
> consumers to their slaves.
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> “What happened to radio, happened to television, and then it  
> happened to cable. If we are not diligent, then it will happen to  
> the Interent [creating] a media plantation for the 21st Century  
> dominated by the same corporate and ideological forces that have  
> controlled the media for the last 50 years.”
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> The government cut a deal with the industry and soon the public  
> lost control, he said.
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> “Something is wrong with this system,” Moyers added. “This is the  
> moment freedom begins, the moment you realize someone else has been  
> writing your story, and it’s time you took the pen from his hand  
> and started writing it yourself.”
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> “We now have it in our means to tell a different story than big  
> media. Our story,” he concluded. “This is the great gift of the  
> digital revolution and you must never let them take it away from you.”
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> Posted by tkarr on Friday, January 12th at 3:57 pm.
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