Great Bill Moyers speech.

[SoCalifer]

My DU friends, if you haven't seen this speech by Bill Moyers while in the National Conference for Media Reform. All I can say is after having just watched myself -- Wow, I thought it was great and right on the money...

If you watch it, and I hope you do because I am sure you're enjoy it, it begins at the 10:00 min spot on the democracy now video link below and lasts all the way to the end of the video.

http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2005/may/video/dnB20050516a.rm&proto=rtsp

[KC21304]

1. Link not working for me.

[Zan_of_Texas]

2. Here's an audio link.

Audio:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/15/163430/675


Also:

Bill Moyers Fights Back
by John Nichols
Blog, at The Nation
posted 5/15/05
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=2484

...

"I should put my detractors on notice," declared the veteran journalist who stepped down in January as the host of PBS's NOW With Bill Moyers, who recently turned 70. "They might compel me out of the rocking chair and into the anchor chair."

Moyers closed the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis on Sunday with his first public response to the revelation that White House allies on the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have secretly been holding PBS in general -- and his show in particular -- to a partisan litmus test.

"I simply never imagined that any CPB chairman, Democrat or Republican, would cross the line from resisting White House pressure to carrying it out for the White House. And that's what (CPB chair) Kenneth Tomlinson has been doing."

Recalling former President Richard Nixon's failed attempt to cut the funding for public broadcasting in the early 1970s, Moyers said, "I always knew that Nixon would be back -- again and again. I just didn't know that this time he would ask to be the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."

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A video of the speech is available at <http://www.freepress.net/conference/audio05/freepress-closing40515.mov>

An audio recording can be downloaded at <http://www.freepress.net/conference/audio05/moyers.mp3>

(John Nichols is a co-founder of Free Press <http://www.freepress.net/>, the national media reform network that organized the National Conference on Media Reform.)


A few of the things Moyers said:

"I have come to see that news is what people want to keep hidden. And everything else is publicity." -- Bill Moyers

"Without a trace of irony, the powers that be have appropriated the NewSpeak vernacular of George Orwell's 1984."

"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."

"A democracy can die of too many lies."

[cestpaspossible]

3. today's Democracy Now is not to be missed

[Warpy]

4. What a SCORCHER

I had no idea that Tomlinson was responsible for so much destruction of so many outfits ranging back so many years. I'd love to see Moyers sue him for defamation, find out that the "six figure donor" was created out of thin air and that the rest of the management are a bunch of gullible twits.

Obviously, Tomlinson has been sitting on a lot of taxpayer funded studies that failed to go the right wing way.

I have to think there will be a reckoning over everything these thieves and scoundrels are doing to us. I have to.

[donkeyotay]

5. Moyers was hot

I only saw part. I had no idea what had happened to NOW. Really good speech.