Bill Moyers is one of my heroes. I can’t let this interview in Buzzflash go un-blogged. The current state of journalism and media in this country is pretty embarassing. He’s another guy who I wish would start a Web log.
I think these forces have unbalanced the relationship between this White House and the press. Frankly, even if we had tried it in LBJ’s time, we wouldn’t have gotten away with the kind of press conference President Bush conducted on the eve of the invasion of Iraq — the one that even the President admitted was wholly scripted, with reporters raising their hands and posing so as to appear spontaneous. Matt Taibbi wrote in The New York Press at the time that it was like a mini-Alamo for American journalism. I’d say it was more a collective Jonestown-like suicide. At least the defenders of the Alamo put up a fight.
Agreed. Talk about someone who should have a blog! WE need Bill Moyers with a blog.