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Major Super PACs Spent Big on Deceptive Ads
According to a new report from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, four super PACs spent over half of their advertising budgets on deceptive ads in the Republican presidential primary. …
Toni Morrison: On Love and Writing
Toni Morrison seems always to be in two worlds. There is the visible world, bustling around her, and there is the world of her novels, whose characters tell us …
Marty Kaplan on Big Money’s Effect on Big Media
Big money and big media have coupled to create a ‘Disney World’ of democracy in which TV shows, televised debates, even news coverage is being dumbed down, just as …
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The Ghost of Joe McCarthy Slithers Again
We’ve talked at times about George Orwell’s classic novel 1984, and the amnesia that sets in when we flush events down the memory hole, leaving us at the mercy …
Moyers Moment (2012): Heather McGhee on Student Debt
In this 2012 Moyers Moment from Moyers & Company, Heather McGhee, director of the Washington office of the research and advocacy organization Demos, talks about the crushing burden of student debt. She …
Bill Moyers: Keep Political Ads Off Public TV
BILL MOYERS: Welcome. Imagine if you turned on your TV set someday soon and were greeted by this: SESAME STREET CHARACTER #1: HI! Welcome to Sesame Street! SESAME STREET …
I’m Big Bird and I Don’t Approve This Message
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about how the media giants who own your local commercial television and radio stations have been striking like startled rattlesnakes at an …
Bill Moyers Essay: Capitalism With a Conscience
With help from the government, a very friendly tax code, and their own coffer-powered influence, big American companies have emerged from the recession flush with cash, less burdened by …
Angela Glover Blackwell on the American Dream
Angela Glover Blackwell has spent her adult life advocating practical ways to fulfill America's promise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for all. Now, with our middle …
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Remembering Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace at his office in New York, Feb. 14, 2002. Wallace, the CBS reporter who became one of the nation's best-known broadcast journalists as an interrogator of the …