Moyers, O'Reilly and Fox Gotcha "Journalism"
Fox Producer Porter Barry ambushes Bill Moyers at National Conference for Media Reform 2008, insisting that the NCMR is a partisan organization (it is not) and harassing him with silly questions about coming on Bill O'Reilly's television show. Afterward, reporters at NCMR do to Barry Porter as he had done to Moyers.
Moyers said he would come on O'Reilly's show if O'Reilly came on his first, and if O'Reilly's owner, Rupert Murdoch would explain his remark about Bush's Iraq War that "The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in the any country."
posted by Juan Cole @ 6/10/2008 12:15:00 AM
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I'm not a big Olbermann fan because he won't touch issues that portray israel unfavorably but I do have to laugh when he refers to O'Reilly's errand boys as "stalker-producers."
This is off topic but does relate to news about the pathetic state of the media.
Dr. Cole embeded a video of the breaking story about major ISP's plans to "channelize" access to the Internet thereby restricting access and threatening the existence of small sites and blogs like Informed Comment. This is quite believable, given b-school mentality, and seems well sourced. There are many issues beyond net neutrality and open lines of communication involving matters like price fixing, creation of artificial monopolies and increasing costs related to restricting access and the bureaucracies needed to support the business model.
This is a very serious issue and yet some readers seemed more concerned about how the story was told and decided that this was the place to raise objections.
I do not disagree with the objections but, if you wish to be effective, write to those who produced the video. One of the strengths of this medium is that you can contact the authors and let them know what you think. (I did.)
There is a brief text version of the basic story at http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality2. Unfortunately it still has the eye candy problem but you can copy and paste the text sans video if you wish to get the word out. The text story is basic journalism.
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