Friday, February 25, 2005

Moyers: Why is Bozell mum about Murdoch's "sleaze empire"?

Bill Moyers tells Nick Welsh: "It's so interesting that one of the chief critics of smut in television, Brent Bozell, who runs a right-wing media watch group [Media Research Center], is silent when it comes to the public standards of Rupert Murdoch's sleaze empire. They do have a double standard. They are silent about the fact that it's capitalism, and that it’s the media tycoons who are polluting the public sphere." (Moyers is wrong, says MRC's Tim Graham.) ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG: "If you want to do really good journalism and journalism that tells the truth as you see it, then broadcast journalism is not the place to go today. There are still good newspapers." [from Poynter.org]

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