Bill Moyers on the Media

Bill Moyers, the most sensible man I know, spoke last Friday at the opening of the National Conference on Media Reform.

"As ownership gets more and more concentrated, fewer and fewer independent sources of information have survived in the marketplace; and those few significant alternatives that do survive, such as PBS and NPR, are under growing financial and political pressure to reduce critical news content and to shift their focus in a mainstream direction, which means being more attentive to establishment views than to the bleak realities of powerlessness that shape the lives of ordinary people."

Here's the transcript or you can listen to his remarks.