Bill Moyers on Media Reform: “Democracy Only Works When Ordinary People Claim It as Their Own”

American broadcaster Bill Moyers speech at the fourth annual National Conference for Media Reform, organized by the group Free Press was a rallying call to fight against media consolidation.

"As conglomerates swallow up newspapers, magazines, publishing houses and broadcast outlets, news organizations are folded into entertainment divisions. The “news hole” in the print media shrinks to make room for ads, celebrities, nonsense and propaganda, and the news we need to know slips from sight," he said.

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