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July 1st, 2007 at 10:07 am
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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July 1st, 2007 at 10:52 am
[…] to Joe Gandelman at TMV for the video. There’s more on Bill Moyers […]
July 1st, 2007 at 11:26 am
[…] H/t Joe Gandelman. […]
July 1st, 2007 at 12:33 pm
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
July 1st, 2007 at 2:12 pm
‘For those of us who spent a lifetime in American journalism, he’s an affront and a disgrace’
I agree. Moyers should be shot!
July 1st, 2007 at 3:08 pm
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.
July 1st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
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.
July 1st, 2007 at 4:00 pm
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.
July 1st, 2007 at 4:06 pm
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.
July 1st, 2007 at 8:04 pm
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.)
July 1st, 2007 at 10:11 pm
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
July 1st, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Since it’s late…
That’s the way the world goes ’round.