Bill Moyers Journal: "Buying the War" will broadcast on PBS on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 9:00 p.m. (check local listings - www.pbs.org/moyers)
Monday, April 23, 2007
Bill Moyers on the Complicity of Journalists in the Iraq War
For those of us who did not buy the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" argument from the beginning this documentary is long overdue. From the greatest journalist of his generation Bill Moyers brings us the selling of the Iraq war by the Bush Administration and how the media bought it hook line and sinker. It will also show us Knight Ridder, who did not buy the arguments and the justifications for war and actually did their own investigation regarding the claims of Saddam's connection to Al Qaeda. The documentary shows us what journalism is and why it is so important. I am so glad Bill Moyers is still practicing the lost art of telling the truth.
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We live in a time when fear has come to dominate everything, and lead to a self-silencing of rational thought. I have been re-reading Amusing Ouselves to Death by Neil Postman, and he discusses the decline in discourse due to a change to a TV-based paradigm of conversation, and the Iraq war is a perfect example of what happens in this type of society. It is much easier to lie and get away with it, especially with the complicity of the Dan Rathers, CNNs, and Fox News.
Thank God for Bill Moyers...a voice in the darkness.
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