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Infomaniac: WeBlog
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Public radio threatened?
Hard news to take for die-hard fans of WLRN, but there's a lot of discussion about changes to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that may put an end to the open political discourse on our public radio and television stations. Bill Moyers spoke this weekend about the Bush adminstration's appointees to run the corporation, and is worried:
We're seeing unfold a contemporary example of the age-old ambition of power and ideology to squelch and punish journalists who tell the stories that make princes and priests uncomfortable. ...This is the point of my story: Ideologues don't want you to go beyond the typical labels of left and right. They embrace a world view that can't be proven wrong because they will admit no evidence to the contrary. They want your reporting to validate their belief system and when it doesn't, God forbid. ...We are not too fragile or insecure to see America and the world entire for all their magnificent and sometimes violent confusion. "There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by," John Steinbeck wrote. "It was called the people."" On this very topic, a timely animated cartoon by Mark Fiore. posted by liz at 11:03 AM 
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