MOYERS TONIGHT - The Mainstream Media Machine - corporate embeddedness (Glen Greenwald/Jay Rosen)

[Dover]

or is that "IN-beddedness". Watchdogs and messengers for the elite agenda.

NEWSLETTER - Friday, February 6, 2009

“Journalists, historically, have been thought of as change agents, as mechanisms to check and
alter government power. What they've now become is the opposite. They are essentially,
the greatest impediment to changing political power, because they have been integrated so completely into it, and are vested in its preservation. And so, I think whatever change occurs is going to occur
despite our journalist class, rather than because of them.”
- Glenn Greenwald

This week on BILL MOYERS JOURNAL (check local listings)

In an increasingly political media environment, how has journalism responded to the task of getting to the truth and informing the public? Bill Moyers sits down with NYU journalism professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen and political journalist and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald.

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The legacy and legend of Lincoln. As Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial birthday approaches, Bill Moyers sits down with historian and Lincoln biographer Eric Foner to discuss the legacy and the legend of America's most studied president. Having just received Illinois' highest honor, the Order of Lincoln, Eric Foner is author of OUR LINCOLN: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LINCOLN AND HIS WORLD and speaks to Moyers about the evolution of Lincoln's image from politician to icon.



On MOYERS ONLINE - http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index.html

Log for more from Eric Foner on Lincoln and the progressive strand in American history.

Explore Lincoln's life and legacy -- from the "original" log cabin to the Lincoln of pop culture.

Find out more from Rosen and Greenwald about citizen journalism.

Watch the best of Bill Moyers on the media.


On THE MOYERS BLOG - http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/

Cool Commanders-in-Chief. Who was America's greatest President?

Politics, the Press and the Public. Is media part of the Beltway problem?

Take our poll. Do you support President Obama's economic stimulus plan?

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The good 'news' is that WTP (We The People) have become very savvy and good at spotting the lies.

We are learning to trust the reality WE are attuned to, and don't rely as much on the media or polls
to inform our perceptions and shape our 'reality'.... and we are doing it in numbers too big to ignore. BRAVO!!!!

It's kind of like if the weather man began to lie to us, we'd soon learn to 'read' the weather
ourselves...because it's something we know how to do in our gut but have rarely had to use this
instinct. The internet has been a helpful tool in taking the collective temperature and gathering
the threads of truth.

We must NEVER lose touch with our own instincts, and MUST learn to trust them.

[gblady]

1. thanks for the headsup....

it looks like a winner...
I have enjoyed Greenwald in the past.

[slipslidingaway]

2. K&R thanks n/t

[SpiralHawk]

3. The republicon-owned corporate media is little more than a Propanda Catapult

They fail to serve the truth or the citizens of the USA.

So glad Moyers is doing this...

[Why Syzygy]

4. What is it they call themselves? The fifth >..???

They act as if they are a fourth branch of the government. They pose the largest danger to the people's intent.

It's no good to petition DC.
In America, broadcast studios are our Parliament. That is where is strikes begin.


Naomi Klein: Public Revolt Builds Against Rip-off Rescue Plans for the Economy

By Naomi Klein, The Nation. Posted February 6, 2009.
http://www.alternet.org/story/125566?page=entire

from link:
The pattern is clear: governments that respond to a crisis created by free-market ideology with an acceleration of that same discredited agenda will not survive to tell the tale. As Italy's students have taken to shouting in the streets: "We won't pay for your crisis!"

[Why Syzygy]

5. kick

[slipslidingaway]

6. kick n/t

[malaise]

7. Watching n/t

[babylonsister]

8. Thanks. "Looking for Lincoln".nt

[babylonsister]

9. Dupe. nt

[Uncle Joe]

10. A most timely program, which is usually the case for Moyers.

You can see the blatant corporate media abuse of propaganda regarding the stimulus bill before Congress.

Pay attention to which party gets the most air time, which party gets the last word and which side the corporate pundit puppets come down on in their analysis or comments, not to mention pundit asides, adjectives and spin words.

Thanks for the thread, Dover.:thumbsup:

[Why Syzygy]

11. The media are "politicians" but not "statesmen"

as a friend of mine put it.

[burythehatchet]

12. Whernever Jack Welsh appears and drops a steaming corporate opinion

think the opposite