'Big Media is Ravenous. It Never Gets Enough.'
Incredible speech from Bill Moyers on the democratic need for media reform
By Wells Dunbar, 6:58PM, Thu. Jan. 18, 2007
"Day after day, the egalitarian creed of our Declaration of Independence is trampled underfoot by hired experts and sloganeers, who speak of the "death tax," "the ownership society," "the culture of life," "the liberal assault on God and family," "compassionate conservatism," "weak on terrorism," "the end of history," "the clash of civilizations," "no child left behind." They have even managed to turn the escalation of a failed war into a "surge," as if it were a current of electricity through a wire, instead of blood spurting from the ruptured vein of a soldier." – Bill Moyers addressing the National Conference on Media Reform, Friday, January 12 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Read the transcript of Moyers' speech at Democray Now!'s Web site, or watch a YouTube upload of it here.
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