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PBS’s Moyers Disgracefully Rips Fox Owner Rupert Murdoch
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| June 30, 2007
| Noel Sheppard
Posted on 07/01/2007 5:44:42 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
his takeover of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, now owned by the Bancroft family, which, like Adam and Eve, the parents of us all, are tempted to sell their birthright for a wormy apple. BS about the Bancroft family owning it. They control about 60% of the voting shares but only own 20% of Dow Jones. Any company in which ownership and control are separated are at extreme risk of being the personal playthings of the controlling party at the expense of the owners. Just look at the NY Times for the prime example.
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posted on
07/01/2007 7:05:51 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(A base looking for a party.)
To: BipolarBob
What is PBSs share of ratings vs. Foxs? Is all of life about money?
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posted on
07/01/2007 7:06:40 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: lowbridge
"...October 1964, Moyers became the President's informal chief of staff until 1966. From July 1965 to February 1967, he also served as White House Press Secretary..." (from Wikipedia>
So tell us, Saint Bill, how may American lives were lost in Vietnam because of your work?
To: frankenMonkey
I knew Moyers in the past and he has always produced his shows. No news reporting, ever. I saw him recently on c-span with his son who bottomed out on drugs and went to Hazelton. After talking for an hour about his isolated private treatment program experience he presumed to comment on what public policy should be. I lost it and sent him an email about how AA is a free, volunteer sucess story that he turned his nose up at, and he should keep his policy goons to himself.
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posted on
07/01/2007 8:07:58 AM PDT
by
ClaireSolt
(Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
To: raybbr
Is all of life about money? I don't think so. I made no mention of money. I did mention envy and ratings but not money. Not all covetousness involves money.
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posted on
07/01/2007 8:09:31 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rear view mirror.)
To: BipolarBob
Not all covetousness involves money. Like covet thy neighbors wife.
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posted on
07/01/2007 8:11:45 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
(If You’re Gonna Burn Our Flag, Wrap Yourself in It First /No Oil for Pacifists)
To: raybbr
Is all of life about money? For those of us who dont have any? Pretty much, yes. :-)
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posted on
07/01/2007 8:12:27 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
(If You’re Gonna Burn Our Flag, Wrap Yourself in It First /No Oil for Pacifists)
To: lowbridge
But the problem isn't just Rupert Murdoch. His pursuit of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL is the latest in a cascading series of mergers, buy-outs, and other financial legerdemain that are making a shipwreck of journalism. Public minded newspapers are being dumped by their owners for wads of cash or crippled by cost cutting while their broadcasting cousins race to the bottom. Moyer's heading straight for the cliff of government control of the media (leftist government control, of course) but pulls back on the reins at the last minute.
The public isn't sufficiently brainwashed, yet, to embrace his utopian vision. Just another decade or so of leftist indoctrination and enough people will see the wisdom of letting people like Bill Moyers control the flow of information to the ignorant masses.
Free market types like Murdoch (who is no ideologue and is only a conservative when there's a buck to made in it, and I mean that as a compliment) push back the timeline every time they get to voice a fact or opinion unvetted by the likes of Moyers and his ilk.
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posted on
07/01/2007 8:19:32 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: elizabetty
Liberals are children.No, children are pure at heart. Liberals, on the other hand are quite taken with evil.
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posted on
07/01/2007 8:25:03 AM PDT
by
Bullish
( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
To: Bullish
No, children are pure at heart.
Nice sentiment but false. There are lots of teenagers who are evil (and liberal).
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posted on
07/01/2007 8:29:58 AM PDT
by
elizabetty
(Perpetual Candidate using campaign donations for your salary - Its a good gig if you can get it.)
To: lowbridge
Bill Moyers on PBS is like a silent fart.
Nobody hears it, but it still stinks up the room.
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posted on
07/01/2007 8:31:36 AM PDT
by
Bullish
( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
To: elizabetty
Teenagers are adolescents, not children.
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posted on
07/01/2007 8:32:26 AM PDT
by
Bullish
( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
To: lowbridge
Like covet thy neighbors wife. Like covet thy neighbors ratings, power and popularity while yours is going down the drain. Mr. Moyers irrelevancy is eating him up.
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posted on
07/01/2007 8:50:41 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rear view mirror.)
To: lowbridge
Let’s see....Moyers was Lyndon Johnson’s press secretary during the Vietnam War when one lie after another came out of that White House through his lips and he wants us to believe anything he has to say? Sorry, Bill. You have zero credibility with anyone who knows you and your history of lies and deception. This is just more of the same.
To: BipolarBob
I did mention envy and ratings but not money. The only reason ratings exist is so they know how much to charge advertisers. It's about money.
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posted on
07/01/2007 9:48:31 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: raybbr
The only reason ratings exist is so they know how much to charge advertisers. It's about money. Normally I would say you were right but not in this case. PBS is a taxpayer funded monopoly and Mr. Moyers gets the same salary regardless of ratings or ad fees. Mr. Moyers is about appearance and power. He is envious that his little watched show is languishing in the shadows.
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posted on
07/01/2007 12:19:22 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rear view mirror.)
To: lowbridge
I thought this loony old drunk retired once already. Why is he back on my payroll (PBS) drooling his demented, senile, leftism?
To: BipolarBob
Normally I would say you were right but not in this case. PBS is a taxpayer funded monopoly and Mr. Moyers gets the same salary regardless of ratings or ad fees. Mr. Moyers is about appearance and power. He is envious that his little watched show is languishing in the shadows.You're right. Moyers is afraid. He's seeing that his point of view is becoming less and less well received. He also must realize that his supporters are becoming more and more unhinged and that is who he was truly speaking to.
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posted on
07/01/2007 2:59:12 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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