Comments on: Bill Moyers On Rupert Murdoch

By: SteveK

SteveK — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:43:04 +0000

Since it's late... That's the way the world goes 'round.

By: SteveK

SteveK — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:11:46 +0000

kritter said,

Well, some of us arenâ€™t going to be around 50 years to see journalism regain its lost luster…

As one of those ‘some of us’ all I can say is ‘thank God’.

It was said somewhere that humans, as a species, could live a hundred and forty years but cynicism makes “it” not worth “it”.

Kim, maybe you should consider golf, it’s good for the ‘ticker’ and it’s grand being able to laugh at 7:30 in the morning.

Let the kids fret about how to make “the world go round*”

*John Prine – 1973

By: DLS

DLS — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:04:03 +0000

propagandists, sensationalistic, pandering C-grade entertainers

USA to media: “I DON’T BELIEVE THE LIBERAL MEDIA”

(actual bumper sticker seen back in the 1980s in LA)

ABC, CBS, NBC: Three Blind Mice, now with Katie[tm]! CNN = Clearly Not Neutral.

Fox, less liberal and even conservative = heretic.

(The main problem with Fox is that it is often TACKY.)

By: kritter

kritter — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:06:25 +0000

Well, some of us aren’t going to be around 50 years to see journalism regain its lost luster, or see the Supreme Court swing back towards the middle again. For me, its disheartening to see the Murdochs of the world solidifying and expanding their media empires, just because they have the big bucks to do so.

By: cosmoetica

cosmoetica — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:00:37 +0000

GreenDreams, the sad fact is that you are in the minority in that recognition.

As for Murdoch, yellow journalism waxes and wanes, and he too will become passe, just as the Hearsts before him did.

By: GreenDreams

GreenDreams — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:56:42 +0000

we know you’re kidding cosmoetica, but that kind of comment out of context is not wise. of course I disagree with you.

I hope the media wakes up soon and realizes how they’ve let their credibility suffer. Failing that, let them become irrelevant as a source of facts and be seen for what they are: propagandists, sensationalistic, pandering C-grade entertainers.

By: domajot

domajot — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:08:11 +0000

I remember the state of journalism pre-Murdock and I look at what it is today.
His influence is a disease from which we are all suffering.

By: cosmoetica

cosmoetica — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:12:45 +0000

‘For those of us who spent a lifetime in American journalism, heâ€™s an affront and a disgrace’

I agree. Moyers should be shot!

By: Robert Stein

Robert Stein — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:33:52 +0000

It’s good to have Bill Moyers weigh in on the subject of Murdoch. He has him just right: Murdoch doesn’t believe in anything but more–more money, more power, more control. For those of us who spent a lifetime in American journalism, he’s an affront and a disgrace:

http://ajliebling.blogspot.com/2007/06/murdoch-and-more.html

By: Bill Moyers vs. Rupert Murdoch « Michael P.F. van der GaliÃ«n

Bill Moyers vs. Rupert Murdoch « Michael P.F. van der GaliÃ«n — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:26:41 +0000

[...] H/t Joe Gandelman. [...]

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Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:52:58 +0000

[...] to Joe Gandelman at TMV for the video. There’s more on Bill Moyers [...]

By: The Democratic Daily

The Democratic Daily — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:07:01 +0000

PBS’s Bill Moyers on Rupert Murdoch’s Bid to Take Over the WSJ

Bill Moyers expounds on Rupert Murdoch’s bid to takeover the WSJ:

H/T to Joe Gandelman at TMV for the video. There’s more on Bill Moyers Journal.

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