Neil Young Rocks On (ABC Australia)

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Neil Young rocks on
Reporter: Kerry O'Brien

Snippet:
KERRY O'BRIEN: You don't think much of the media, do you?

NEIL YOUNG: My father was a media man.

He was a journalist.

And I've been around the media my whole life and I know there's a mission there.

And I know there's a great struggle for integrity.

And, you know, I think that a lot of the old hardliners, the old -- not hardliners but the old Walter Cronkites and the Edward R Murrows and those types, they defined what it was supposed to be about.

And now the line between reality TV and reality and news and entertainment and everything is all blurred and really people's lives are at stake.

So it seems like, you know, when you have a Madison Avenue type of marketing team behind a war program, working to give a good slogan to the war so the American people and people around the world will get behind the shock and awe of something or they give it a title.

They market it like it was a new product, and I just -- to me, that's -- the line is blurred.

Maybe I'm out of place in today's world, but that I really care.

I'm just -- that's how I feel

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2003/s992079.htm

[Kat 333]

1. Yay Neil ...

Keep On Rockin In a Free World ...