In Bill Moyer's Speech, "Journalism Under Fire", to the Society of Professional Journalists, Bill Moyers relates how journalism and politics have become inexorably linked.
However, I found his accounts regarding corporate interests, the "Rapture Index", and the current efforts by the current administration to further restrict the flow of information, media consolidation, and many other related topics to be both chilling, mind-numbing and thought provoking.
When you lay out all of the facts like Moyers does in his speech, even if half of them are completely wrong, the state of free & objective journalism is frighteningly close to disappearing or at least not large enough to have the impact it should have. Giving us the information we need to make informed & proper decisions. I have been following the individual points Bill Moyers lays for years, but I never thought to put them in a long essay like he has done.
Moyer relays a great quote from a fellow journalist being asked a college student to define "Real News" ...
“Real news,” said Richard Reeves “is the news you and I need to keep our freedoms.”
He goes on to mention a number of accounts throughout the world where journalists were murdered because of their reporting, because as Moyers puts it "Journalism matters" and the successful nefarious elements of society know it. Nothing disrupts the flow of dirty dealings of governments, organized crime, corporations and privileged individuals like the spotlight of high quality, objective journalism.
I encourage you to read Moyers' speech on the website or download it for printing. Please let me know if you have trouble accessing the website.
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