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Broadcast Legend Bill Moyers on Media Reform: "Democracy Only Works When Ordinary People Claim It as Their Own"

by via Democracy Now
Monday, June 9, 2008 :More than 3,500 people gathered in Minneapolis this weekend for the fourth annual National Conference for Media Reform, organized by the group Free Press. The thousands of participants took part in panel discussions and strategized on efforts to fight media consolidation and democratize the airwaves. We play the electrifying keynote address by legendary journalist Bill Moyers.
More than 3,500 people gathered in Minneapolis this weekend for the fourth annual National Conference for Media Reform. The thousands of participants took part in panel discussions and strategized on efforts to fight media consolidation and democratize the airwaves. The three-day event was organized by the media reform group, Free Press. The highlight of the weekend was the keynote address by legendary journalist, Bill Moyers, host of the weekly PBS program Bill Moyers Journal. Moyers was one of the founding organizers of the Peace Corps, press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, a publisher of Newsday, senior correspondent for CBS News and a producer of many groundbreaking series on public television. He won more than thirty Emmy Awards and is the author of four bestselling books. His latest, just published, is “Moyers on Democracy.” On Saturday morning, Bill Moyers took to the stage and addressed the packed convention auditorium.

Bill Moyers, host of the weekly PBS program Bill Moyers Journal. Moyers was one of the founding organizers of the Peace Corps, press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, a publisher of Newsday, senior correspondent for CBS News and a producer of many groundbreaking series on public television. He won more than thirty Emmy Awards and is the author of four bestselling books. His latest, just published, is Moyers on Democracy.


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Monday, June 9, 2008 :Before the National Conference for Media Reform began, Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, attacked it and one of the other conference participants, Dan Rather, on the air. O'Reilly also sent a producer to confront Moyers in what become an animated confrontation.


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§Moyers, O'Reilly and Fox Gotcha "Journalism"
by juan cole (reposted)
From a Tuesday, June 10, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog

Moyers, O'Reilly and Fox Gotcha "Journalism"

Fox Producer Porter Barry ambushes Bill Moyers at National Conference for Media Reform 2008, insisting that the NCMR is a partisan organization (it is not) and harassing him with silly questions about coming on Bill O'Reilly's television show. Afterward, reporters at NCMR do to Barry Porter as he had done to Moyers.

Moyers said he would come on O'Reilly's show if O'Reilly came on his first, and if O'Reilly's owner, Rupert Murdoch would explain his remark about Bush's Iraq War that "The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in the any country."

posted by Juan Cole @ 6/10/2008 06:15:00 AM

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