Bill Moyers - PBS - you have to listen to this!

If you haven't had a chance to listen to Bill Moyers presentation to the National Confereace for Media Reform that took place this weekend, you owe it to yourself to take an hour and listen to it him talk about the Right Wing attacks he withstood over the past few years because they didn't like the fact that he was presenting fair and balanced stories on NOW and what's going on with PBS now.

You can find a link to his presentation here, as well as links to many of the other presesntations from the conference

http://www.cctvcambridge.org/freepress/index.shtml

Here is the list of presentations you can listen to:
Keynote Event
May 14, 2005. This event is broken into shorter pieces for faster downloads. Total running time approx 2 hours.

* Part 1: Al Franken & Robert McChesney
* Part 2: Jonathan Adelstein
* Part 3: Michael Copps
* Part 4: Dave "Davey D" Cook
* Part 5: Patti Smith
* Part 6: Jim Hightower
* Part 7: Kim Gandi
* Part 8: Rep. Diane Watson

» Media Ownership and Consolidation Session
May 13, 2005. This session features Gene Kimmelman, Frank Blethen, Linda Foley, and Federico Subervi. (Minor audio issues in first five mins, sorry about that...) Approx 57mins.

» Independent Media: Creating the Solution Session
May 13, 2005. This session features Craig Aaron, Laura Flaunders, Robert Greenwald, Linda Jue, and Salim Muwakkil. Approx 50mins.

» The Telecom Act: Gearing up for the Big One Session
May 13, 2005. This session features Russ Newman, John Arnold, Mark Cooper, and Lauren Glenn Davitian. Approx 60mins

» Citizen Pressure and Media Policy: Tips from the Legistlators Session
May 14, 2005. This session features Rep. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Maurice Hinchey, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, and Rep. Diane Watson. (Video error on last 15 minutes, but audio is fine. Sorry about that...) Approx 60mins

» Closing Plenary
May 15, 2005. This event is broken into shorter pieces for faster downloads. Some segments have lower than normal audio levels and we are working to fix this but it will take some time. Using QuickTime Player you can increase the sound track levels a small amount in the Show Movie Properties menu item, this can help as a temporary fix. Total running time approx 2 hours.

* Part 1: Chellie Pingree
* Part 2: Sydney Levy
* Part 3: Amanda Valentine
* Part 4: Bill Moyers
* Part 5: Closing Remarks

They were doing the fund-drive at the same time, so I didn't get to hear all of it.

Thanks for posting the links!!:-)

I bookmarked it for tomorrow.
Nice effort!

Media reform is the great umbrella under which all other concerns are shadowed. Without a properly informed public, (or, some would say that we are a deliberately misled public) the radical policy changes needed in order to restore our once-vibrant democratic process will simply languish in a stasis of manufactured apathy.

I've no doubt that the potential for unprecedented public outrage exists. It's that so many Americans take, as gospel, the deceptive, selectivist methods of the corporate-owned press.

The heels digging in, keeping America entrenched in this painful status quo, will eventually give in to the tremendous pressure of the truth.

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then burned it onto a CD. I will play it to make sure it is ok and if so, I'll be happy to mail one to you. Just let me know.:hi:

I appreciate the link. This is very important.

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Bill Moyers is a TRUE patriot, imo.

They sure knew what they were doing when they started the media monopoly gears in motion.

I think the outright evil people are in the small minority; but the voting base they rely on are the 47% or so who think TV tells the truth, have no time to search for info, don't know what it means to check sources, and do what their pastor tells them to.

They're not plotting the destruction of the American way.

Faux, their local papers and church tell them its the American way and they go with the flow.

gonna bookmark this so I can check it after work

From all 50 states, people went to St. Louis for this conference.

Amazing, huh? Not only were there great speeches but I think they got some good work done in terms of coordinating groups and actions.

Can't fool all the people all the time.

The more people in positions to affect media and legislation start getting it, the more other people will get it. I am so convinced that getting the word out, in more than just blogs, is absolutely crucial. How can I try and tell any brainwashed person anything when their immediate response is distrust because it didn't come and bat them in the head from the big tube in their living room?

Hey, btw, I always love your screen name!

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AWESOME, AWESOME speech! I loved when he "threatened" to go back into journalism. :7 He was half joking. We should be so lucky though!

and it almost brought me to tears..

What passion, what a delivery, what a man!!

for those of you who haven't seen it yet, it's on again at midnight on C-SPAN2!

He pulled no punches. It was so good I want to watch it again.

This country is in serious trouble.