Moyers on how Corporate Media Kills Democracy

Bill Moyers addressed the National Conference for Media Reform last month in Minneapolis. In his speech, he told how the current media landscape is creating false consent in society and therefore helping to destroy democracy and give more power to the corporate elites, highlighting the current struggles for net neutrality against ComCast in the states.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3790/is_the_fourth_estate_a_fifth_column/

Bill Moyers hosts the Bill Moyers Journal on PBS and is the President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.

O'Reilly's Producer Gets Slammed!

In what was the clear highlight of the recent National Conference for Media Reform in Minnesota, Bill O'Reilly's (of Fox News shame) Producer get journalistically slammed by Bill Moyers (from the Bill Moyers Journal on PBS) for his Pro-War sympathies.
Luckily some guerilla reporters were close by and able to record it and therefore expose the sly tactics adopted by Fox News as they attempted to "EXPOSE" a media reform conference for being partisan!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN-vrcbHJVA

Right Wing Rails Against the Weather

Ever thought your television weather reports lacked a bit of context? In "Weather Reports are Missing the Story", Amy Goodman explains how the lack of context in weather reports reinforces the idea climate change is disconnected from our current weather patterns. It seems that for the right wing, even the weather could be termed as being "left-wing"!

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2008/6/19/amy_goodmans_new_column_weather_reports_are_missing_the_story

Amy Goodman, is a Presenter on Democracy Now on the U.S. Pacifica Network and was a key speaker at the National Conference for Media Reform in Minnesota.