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| Moyers on Democracy | 
 enlarge | Author: Bill Moyers
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 9344
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 1
ISBN: 0385523807
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.973
EAN: 9780385523806
ASIN: 0385523807
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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 Red meat August 17, 2008
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Moyer's is the epitome of what's wrong with modern journalism: leftist ideologues shaping current events to fit their agenda. He tries to take the wooden spoon to Rush Limbaugh's behind as some kind of curse on humanity, while Rush is 100% upfront about what his agenda is people like Moyer try to pass themselves off as unbiased, non-agenda driven truth-sayers. And Rush as a nag, please, Moyers lives off the red meat of telling people what's wrong with this country. There's seemingly never any good in this country other than the capability of maintaining the lofty Utopian dream Moyers has in his head.
And that's where a good chuckle comes in when he starts talking of personal responsibility. Is it the personal responsibility of taking charge of your own path in life, or, taking personal responsibility for everything that the government hasn't relieved you of under the nanny state that he so desires.
Moyers believes the Bush administration has eroded the foundations of the republic. And Bush has been far from perfect, but bet the farm that the Founding Fathers would be much more in line with Bush's vision of America than they would Moyers.
 Moyers Rises High Over Party Politics October 25, 2008
Moyers rises high over party politics as he salutes wide-ranging, even argumentative conversation, saying "you stand up for your country when you stand up to the government." He encourages each of us to state our own views strongly, not only to get out more deeply held feelings, but also to stake our claims as individuals - "Talking with people who agree with you is like jogging in a cul-de-sac". Moyers thinks we should follow the trail of money from lobbyists to laws than benefit only the few. Moyers wants media, even or especially NPR, to report more in-depth stories about real people, the working and middle classes and their daily struggles. We should not, for example, consider a news story balanced just because it has a Democrat quoted and a Republican quoted, but rather if it does that AND provides historical and economic context. We shouldn't be describing an escalation of the war in Iraq as a "surge - as if it were a current of electricity charging through a wire instead of blood spurting from a soldier's ruptured veins." Moyers is one of those people so important to our society, one who knows that issues are more important than party, that being open is more important than being right, that the right thing is not always the most profitable.
Reading for all of us.
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