[Iowa-dx] SCGP May Program

[hhart@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu]

Well, we hope to have some news from Johnons County in the near future...

Ted, are you willing to lend the DVD?

Holly


Quoting "tpfeiff@earthlink.net" <tpfeiff@earthlink.net>:

> The Scott County Green Party presented a public showing of a film of =20
>  Bill Moyers speaking to the National Conference for Media Reform.  =20
> Although Moyer's speech was given in May of 2005, the relevance of  =20
> what he said stands true  in 2007. Put these Moyer's quotes on for  =20
> size:
>
> "These 'rules of the game' permit Washington officials to set the  =20
> agenda for journalism, leaving the press all too often simply to  =20
> recount what officials say instead of subjecting their words and  =20
> deeds to critical scruntiny." "...news is what people want to keep  =20
> hidden and everything else is publicity."
>
> "An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only  =20
> on partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a  =20
> people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of  =20
> propaganda, is less inclined to put up a fight, to ask questions and =20
>  be skeptical."
>
> We look forward to showing the two DVD set on Ralph Nader, " An  =20
> Unreasonable Man," when it arrives!
>
> Still all quiet on the western front!