The Real News Alternative?

Below I have included an interview with Paul Jay, founder of therealnews, where he discusses the problems with current journalism practice and his own plans for therealnews on PBS.

Jay is hoping he can kick off a online video service funded purely with viewer contributions that will represent the story from outside a mainstream framework. The hope is that this kind of service can counter the mainstream news that supported the U.S government in its illegal invasion of Iraq and is currently cheerleading for an attack on Iran.

The problems with this model under the current system are numerous. Lack of internet access, lack of media alternative awareness, lack of financial ability. These are just a few of the wider (governmental responsibility) problems that therealnews is going to have to work around and without funding from foundations, corporations or state growth is going to be a hard slog.

View the Video here

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