29.
Media Blackout
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1112-10.htm
Thank you for inviting me tonight. I’m
flattered to be speaking to a gathering as high-powered as this one that’s come
together with an objective as compelling as “media reform.” I must confess,
however, to a certain discomfort, shared with other journalists, about the very
term “media.” Ted Gup, who teaches journalism at Case
Western Reserve, articulated my concerns better than I could when he wrote in
The Chronicle of Higher Education (November 23, 2001)
that the very concept of media is insulting to some of us
within the press who find ourselves lumped in with so many disparate elements,
as if everyone with a pen, a microphone, a camera, or just a loud voice were
all one and the same. …David Broder is not Matt
Drudge. “Meet the Press” is not “
A video of the speech is available at http://www.freepress.net/conference/audio05/freepress-closing40515.mov
An audio recording can be downloaded at http://www.freepress.net/conference/audio05/moyers.mp3
Cronkite Fears Media Mergers Threaten
Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/scriptfiles/views03/1108-01.htm
The most trusted name in news is worried
about what is happening to the news media in
"I think it is absolutely essential
in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we
seem to be moving away from that," said Walter Cronkite, the former CBS
News anchorman, whose name remains synonymous with American journalism.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0105-20.htm
The New Year
is here, and as we take stock of the state of the world and our nation, we must
put media reform even higher on our priority list. The movement to fix our
badly broken media system is gathering momentum, but the decisions made this
year could resonate for decades to come.
The
Internet of Tomorrow (Video)