Bury Me Broken

Moyers defends PBS, takes aim at `radical right'

From the St. Louis Dispatch:

Bill Moyers denounced on Sunday the right wing and top officials at the
White House, saying they are trying to silence their critics by controlling the news media.

He also took aim at reporters who become little more than willing government "stenographers." And he said the public increasingly is content with just enough news to confirm its own biases.

Moyers said those in power - government officials and their allies in the media - mean to stay there by punishing journalists "who tell the stories that make princes and priests uncomfortable."

Moyers described those officials as "obsessed with control" of the media. He said they are using the government "to threaten and intimidate."

Moyers answered for the first time recent charges that public television in general and he in particular have become too liberal.

Hats off to Moyers for telling it like it is. We are currently innundated with Newsweek apologizing for inaccuracies and the fake moral outrage and indignance. There is no outrage for the number of times Republican pundits on cable news stations lie daily concerning the use of the "nuclear option."

posted by niteskolar @ 3:42 PM