RK ARCHIVE - Bill Moyers' Inflammatory Speech on Corporate Media

Here is a must-hear call to frustrate the corporate media in their (so far successful) campaign to control everything we see and hear, in other words, to develop "communi-tainment" to replace news, turning us all into sheep, passive consumers of propaganda. Everything bad you suspected about corporate media, including their grab to control and censor the Internet, is, sadly, true. Hear Bill Moyers all the way to the end. Network neutrality? Corporate control of every information outlet? Dominance by neo-conservatives? Bottom line short term profit over everything else? No accountability? Death of Democracy coincidental with death of the free press? Ha. This should be a major issue in our presidential campaign. Check out it out, if you have the stomach:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y0r...

Comments

Is it too far gone to vix? (Teddy - 6/8/2008 9:16:46 PM)

The Bush administration has embedded its propagandists so deeply into regulatory agencies, and its political-economic philosophy has become such accepted collective wisdom that we may be past the point of no return. The whole "net neutrality" dust-up was, basically, another of those midnight raids that passed almost unremarked upon. I had forgot how AT & T (or was it Verizon or aol?) tried to censor text messagaes from NARAL--- listen to Bill Moyers as he gallops through chapter and verse. We're well on the way to total control by the corporate state, and almost no one has noticed. Well, a few have, but my question (after hearing Moyers) is: how can we stop, much less reverse, this smothering of our free press?

We've used the Internet to mount a

I was censored! (Teddy - 6/8/2008 9:20:50 PM)

Or, something somehow cut me off. My final phrase was: We've used the Internet to mount a political grassroots rebellion, but "they" are rapidly closing off that avenue of alternate news, no matter what you may think.
Also, the headline was supposed to say "fix" not vix, but to my amazement there was no time to Preview, so you got the comment without proofreading. Wonder how that happened...

The Essential Power of the NetRoots is Evident (dsvabeachdems - 6/8/2008 9:28:31 PM)

An Orwellian description of the landscape pervades Moyer's lucid call to action. It would seem that only the NetRoots may remain to offer an alternative to communitainment shaped primarily by agendas interwoven with pop culture to create a palatable and inseparable association.

The Kerner Commission spoke directly to the threat of economic polarization some 40 years ago. Now we are seeing informational discrimination that is designed to institutionalize and celebrate a diversity that keeps Americans with common interests from recognizing each other's mutual concerns.

So Moyer's call is to all of us: Let us rekindle the partriot's dream. "...from your websites and laptops, tell it...tell America what we need to know..."

The Internet, uncontrolled and independent (Teddy - 6/9/2008 9:22:19 AM)

is the last remaining tool available to individuals hoping to learn what is going on, and to discover they are not alone. Moyers actually found it necessary to tell the members of his audience to introduce themselves to each other... in other words, the Super Elite and the corporatists have every intention of using divide and conquer, separating us from each other, keeping us ignorant of news they do not like, and keeping us from enforcing accountability and thus controlling our own lives.

Public apathy is good, at least insofar as the corporate rulers are concerned.