Buzzflash inteview with Bill Moyers

[ProfessorPlum]

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/10/int03281.html

This guy is right on the money, as usual.

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The fact is that big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are the undisputed overlords of politics and government today. Barry Diller came on my PBS program and talked about what can happen when the media and political elites gang up on the public. Diller says we have a media oligopoly. Kevin Phillips says we have a political oligarchy. Talk about a marriage made in hell! Listen, these guys are reshaping our news environment. They're down in Washington wining and dining the powers-that-be insisting that any restriction on their ability to own media properties is a violation of their corporate First Amendment rights. They want to be the gatekeepers not only over what we see on television and hear on the radio but how we travel online.

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Go read the whole thing - it is incredibly jam packed full of excellent insight. If only Moyers could sit our "journalists" down and teach them a thing or two.