Bozell: Conference on Media Reform was a Left-wing Hootenany

[AnnInLa]

Media & Entertainment
Radical Leftists Preach ‘Media Reform’

by L. Brent Bozell, III
Posted May 31, 2005







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Instead, the world is now embracing Western-style democratic capitalism. Worse yet, the national media conversation isn’t the completely one-sided left-wing nightly harangue that it was in that bygone era. Even PBS and NPR seem far too cautious and corporate for the radicals now. They sense a “creeping conservative coup” threatening public broadcasting, their own little People’s Republic. They want a media that focuses public attention on their agenda: protest capitalism as a death trap, resist the evil military-industrial complex, lobby for massive redistribution of wealth, and You Shall Have No Gods Before Mother Earth. They aren’t liberals. They are radicals.

Hard-Left Hootenanny

With those goals in mind, in mid-May, the radicals held a confab called the “National Conference for Media Reform” in St. Louis. Many of the speakers at this hard-left hootenanny had trouble containing their extreme disdain for America. Start with the shocking remarks of Linda Foley, the president of the Newspaper Guild, the union representing reporters at newspapers. She was upset that “there’s not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq.” She charged that the U.S. military “target and kill journalists from other countries, particularly Arab countries” and, in the case of Al-Jazeera, “they actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity.”



snip....personal dump on Bill Moyers

Earth to PBS: When you are under attack for being a nest of left-wingers, it might not be the best strategy to let your most identifiable left-wing stars go to radical-left conferences and attack conservatives as evil. That tends to exacerbate your image problem.

snip...dumping on the Moyers's speech

Then Moyers grew sillier. He said that under the Bush Administration and the corporate media, Americans were growing into “an unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda.” Critics on the right are portrayed as evil for merely demanding that somebody in this tax-funded public broadcasting maze ensures that the system fulfills its legal mandate of objectivity and balance. The radical left arrogantly demands an “independent” news media that screams with one voice, with one mind and with one bleeding heart, that conservatism equals war, torture, environmental poisoning, starving the poor and squelching free speech. The radical left finds balance unacceptable, because it cannot win a fair fight for the American mind.



Critics on the right are portrayed as evil for merely demanding that somebody in this tax-funded public broadcasting maze ensures that the system fulfills its legal mandate of objectivity and balance. The radical left arrogantly demands an “independent” news media that screams with one voice, with one mind and with one bleeding heart, that conservatism equals war, torture, environmental poisoning, starving the poor and squelching free speech. The radical left finds balance unacceptable, because it cannot win a fair fight for the American mind.

Mr. Bozell is president of the Media Research Center.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7601

((I was an attendee at the Nat'l Conference for Media Reform and was honored to hear Bill Moyers speak...and honored just to be in attendance with so many dedicated liberals who are honestly concerned about taking back our media and developing reliable, independent, alternate media sources.))

[ariellyn]

1. Totally personal and lacking substance--the RW way...and their sheeple

will eat this up.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

2. Who cares what Brent Bozell thinks?

He won't be satisfied until everyone on TV with a liberal thought in their head is dead.

He gets paid to propagandize, and he'd still find rampant liberalism even if Fox News was the only news network remaining.

[smoogatz]

3. Same old same old

Nothing but name-calling and misrepresentation. When the going gets rough, the right wing looks for a scapegoat.