Bill Moyers Journal, Moyer’s new PBS show, launched tonight with a brilliant report about how journalism fell down on the job during the Bush administration’s propaganda build up to invade Iraq. Check out the Web site for info – blog, tv listings, podcasts, live onlines.
Bill Moyers Journal-ism
April 25, 2007 · 3 Comments
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lacajag // April 25, 2007 at 10:41 pm
It’s interesting reading the comments and questions on the live online tonight. McClatchy, cum Knight Ridder D.C. bureau, reporters Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel are fielding and the posts are coming so fast that there is a jam. Landay and Strobel were featured on the Journal as reporters who were asking the tougher questions leading up to the invasion…but their voices were muted by the party line issued by most media outlets.
Several people submitting comments write that they didn’t know they were being fed propaganda before seeing tonight’s show. Which makes me wonder what prompted them to watch?
Not that the show wasn’t revelatory for die-hard skeptics – I was in awe of the raw indictment of the New York Times. Also, I was surprised to learn that former Bush speech writer, Mark Gerson, now works for The Washington Post.
However, I’m surprised that Chicago blogger Christian Anderson, 24, writes, “WOW!! I was, at least as a bar going 20 - 21 year old at the time(2002-2003), sucked in hook, line, & sinker to the evidence furnished me by the news media.
“As a younger person, I never really though to challenge what the major media channels were reporting, how could I have been so wrong.” [NOTE: Location, name, age and comment from blog – not confirmed]
It’s very cool that several people are learning, not just about a specific situation, but how important it is to think critically for yourself.
Also, I highly urge everyone to watch Errol Morris’ THE FOG OF WAR - for the first or 40th time. Morris interviews Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense for much of the Vietnam War. The film lists the 11 Rules of Robert McNamara. It’s a brilliant film about the man, the war and the past…but it’s haunting set in 21st century context.
sven // April 26, 2007 at 12:18 am
The Fog of War is something that every American must watch!
Moyer’s piece is long overdue, but at least it has finally come. May the uniformed be liberated.
Impeach Cheney
Impeach Bush
Regain American integrity!
pat // April 28, 2007 at 2:32 pm
I agree about The Fog of War–it’s brilliant, and a must-see. It seems to show up semi-regularly on the digital movie channels, and no matter how many times I’ve seen it, when I run into it when channel-flipping I’m sucked in all over again.
I downloaded the Quicktime movies from the PBS site, and I plan on watching the Moyers show again from them. I thought it was really well done, and overdue or not it’s something we should all see.
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