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

From the National Conference Media Reform June 2008...
and Bill Moyers:

"So it is that democracy without honest information creates the illusion of popular consent while enhancing the power of the state and the privileged interests protected by it. Democracy without accountability creates the illusion of popular control while offering ordinary Americans only cheap tickets to the balcony, too far away to see that the public stage has become just a reality TV set. Nothing more characterizes corporate media today, mainstream and partisan, than disdain toward the fragile nature of modern life and indifference toward the complex social debate required of a free and self-governing people."

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