I Kid You Not! If you missed it go to Bill Moyers interview with Jay Rosen & Glenn Greenwald..

[KoKo]

You will Not be Disappointed. One of the BEST Moyers Inteviews I've ever heard...but given it's Moyers, many of us have heard incredible stuff from his "Bill Moyers Journal" since the Chimp stole the Election.

THIS ONE...is SPECIAL, though. We Netroots will feel very good about our place in HISTORY FOR CHANGE after listening to this interview.

And...if you have time listen to the new Historian talking about Lincoln...it's not what Doris Kerns Goodwin tells you and it's and interesting interview in it's own right.

BUT...just listen to Greenwald & Rosen if you have little time...it's really good...

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html

[wildbilln864]

1. Thank you. K&R! nt

[BlooInBloo]

2. Moyers and Greenwald? Sounds excellent.

"Let's spend a moment on the Daschle affair, before it becomes a footnote to history."

BWAHAHAAHAH!!!!

A harsher criticism of everybody talking about it, you'll never hear.

[Demoiselle]

3. I watched last night. It's really good! (eom)

[bluedeminredstate]

4. Excellent interview

I just watched the first five minutes and bookmarked it for later this evening. Thanks!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. Thank you!! They're right - the mass media is out to crucify Obama ...

For those who haven't gone to the website yet, the first part of the interview shows Obama apologizing, then it shows the response from all of the mass media, which was to crucify Obama. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02062009/watch.html <-- this is where you can watch the interview


The interview involves:

NYU journalism professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen and political journalist and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald explain to Bill Moyers that the press, once seen as an agent for change — the "fourth estate" checking power in America — has become thoroughly enmeshed in the establishment, and has a vested interest in preserving it. Jay Rosen explains:

Well, what cannot be considered is that there could be anything radically wrong with Washington. That the entire institution could be broken. That there are new rules necessary. That idea, that the institutions of Washington have failed and need to be changed, doesn't really occur to the press, because they're one of those institutions.

But both Greenwald and Rosen believe that the Internet may change that — by offering ways to circumvent the top-down information exhange of traditional media. As Greenwald explains:

The Internet enables people to construct their own platforms and to attract like-minded people. <...> So that now there are gathering places of hundreds of thousands, if not more citizens, who are just as angry, just as dissatisfied and just as intent on circumventing these institutions, shaming them into changing as well, in order to force the change that they themselves so vigorously resist. And I think there's a cause for optimism in that regard.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02062009/profile.html

[KoKo]

7. But, actually it's that WE have to Keep Obama beholden to what he ran on, too...

That's what I got as one of the many messages from this incredibly worthwhile interview. I guess everyone can get something from the interview and that's why it so good. Both Greenwald and Rosen...

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. True. I haven't watched it yet but I'm going to - I can't wait! nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. K&R!

[benld74]

9. I saw it and it made my hair grayer! Scary shit

[merh]

10. interview on youtube - posted in Political Video forum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x269385

[Hatchling]

11. Transcript for those us us still in the dial-up era.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02062009/transcript4.html