Letters to the Editor
Elephantman
Published Letters: 1284 Editor's Choice: 15
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No, no, no. Lie correction needed, fast.
[Read the article: The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "retraction" of a comment about Moyers' program was this; O'Reilly (and others as well) had asseted that Moyers was producing his programs 'with public money,' or 'with tax dollars,' or words to that effect.
The fact is, that Moyers' production costs are covered by fundraising that Moyers does himself. So in that one, particular, regard, a correction was needed, and was warranted. And was given.
That was the only correction needed, and the only one offered. The main thrust of the O'Reilly story -- Moyers' phony denials as to his name-calling aimed at Fox -- was not corrected, because it was true, unedited recorded footage.
But the smallness of that particular issue (production costs) is noteworthy when one sees the whole mechanism of public broadcasting mobilized for Moyers' benefit. Moyers (as I pointed out right away in response to Glenn Greenwald's ironic argument about having the inegrity to appear and answer hard questions) appears to exist exclusively in a public broadcasting echo chamber of NPR and PBS programming. He appeared on at least four, if not more, NPR programs to flog his new show.
So yeah, Bill Moyers Journal is produced without CPB funding.
Now answer this -- who is the conservative counterweight to Bill Moyers, anywhere on NPR or PBS?
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Strangely Enough --
[Read the article: The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When you wrote:
"That Moyers gets canned for telling the truth and Kristol, Krauthammer, et al, are still paid to lie."
What were you referring to? When was Moyers ever "canned"?
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With apologies to Keith Olbermann, and for Tim Grieve's benefit...
[Read the article: "The president heard the call"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wish to observe that today marks the fourth day since Senator Harry Reid declared "mission...accomplished."
Senator Reid's words: "The military mission has long since been accomplished."
http://www.habitablezone.com/currentevents/messages/466461.html
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Weiku Boy is back...
[Read the article: The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With a new effort to paraphrase me. It is as bad as his last one, which he self-corrected HERE:
http://letters.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/04/03/fox_news_democrats/permalink/9327905c3871819abcad8e66abfa318e.html
I never said Cokie Roberts was a liberal. I pointed out that she, the daughter of two old-time Democrat politicians (Hale Boggs and Lindy Boggs) and the sister of one of Washnigton's highest-profile Democrat lobbyists (Tommy Boggs) was the closest-to-the-center "Senior News Analyst" at the left-tilitng NPR News. The other "Senior News Analysts" being Daniel Schorr and Juan Williams. I said then, and say again now, the NPR's annointed interpreters of the news range from the instiutional center-left (Roberts) to the workaday-Black Caucus-left (Williams) to the wacko conspiracy-theorizing left (Schorr).
"Eat me." - Esteemed journalist Rosie O'Donnell, 2007.
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Paul Rosenberg, and "FAIR"
[Read the article: The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So nice to know that NPR has the "FAIR" stamp of approval.
For anyone unfamiliar with "FAIR," here is the Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_and_Accuracy_in_Reporting
By its own terms, I find the FAIR report amusing. They talk about guests, experts and sources on NPR News programming. When you talk to an NPR Ombudsman, they like to declaim any responsibility for shows like Tavis Smiley, Fresh Air, Ferai Chedeya, Democracy Now! or News and Notes. The claim is that those shows are not NPR News programs, but are independently produced. Sometimes by PRI and not NPR.
Give me a break. The day that somebody shows me the idological balance on any large NPR station's overall programming schedule, and the day that NPR has a conservative "Senior News Analyst," is the day that I will stop complaining about NPR.
I used to enjoy very much tweaking the previous NPR Ombudsman with questions about the NPR 'sister publication', Slate.com. Every four years, Slate publicizes the Presidential 'votes' of its staff. Last time the staff was something like 40 to 3 for Kerry. I presumed that it was the same at NPR. (Where host Michelle Norris' husband acutally worked for the Kerry campaign and 'On the Media' host Brooke Galdstone's husband is the Bush-hating Fred Kaplan of Slate.) The Ombudsman was furious at Slate for exposing that factoid as to the political leanings of its staff.
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You might want to check on this.
[Read the article: The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elephantman
Moyers was canned from Frontline during Tomlinson's purge of anything that was sufficiently pro-Bush. That would be the same Ken Tomlinson who spent a lot of taxpayer money to determine that Chuck Hagel is a "liberal."
-- Strangely Enough
"Frontline" was not a Bill Moyers program. "Now" was Bill Moyers' program. Moyers was not fired from that show, or any other recent programming. Ken Tomlinson did not fire ANY on-air talent at PBS. Ever.
And, as you know or should know, "Now" is still on the air, thank you very much, with Bill Moyers' successor and fellow-traveler David Brancaccio carrying the liberal torch. Some kinda purge!
So check it out and get back to me on this. I'll be waiting.
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orbit boy...
[Read the article: The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wrote to me, suggesting:
Did they publish a breakdown of how many Slate staff members belive that humans can live inside the belly of a whale, or that humans rode on the backs of dinosaurs, or that Moses parted the Red Sea, or that Noah housed a male and female of every species of life form on one boat for 40 days and 40 nights, or that the earth was created in one week around 6,000 years ago, or want gays and muslims thrown into prison camps or think women who have an abortion should get the death penalty, or....
-- orbitboy
I dunno; I haven't given a lot of serious thought to any of that. But I can think of someone who has. That would be Bill Moyers, Baptist theologian. Maybe you should ask him. Now maybe, just maybe, Moyers has an answer to that question that you'd like. (I have a feeling that you'd like a rabidly anti-Christian answer; I doubt that Bill Moyers is going to give it to you.)
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Too bad that the ACLU and peer-reviewed science didn't take on the plaintiffs in the silicone gel breast implant litigation...
[Read the article: ACLU takes on abstinence-only ed]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...or any other number of junk-science class action lawsuits. Dow Corning might not have had to file for bankruptcy.
Oh well, it will be nice to have the ACLU strictly on the side of peer-reviewed science for a change.
That is what is going to happen, right?