Bill Moyers And FCC Chair Michael J. Copps: Keeping The Internet Democratic And Ensuring Our Democratic Future Through A Strong News Media

The world is going to dearly miss Bill Moyers when he retires next week. A journalist, a critical thinker and a person with great empathy for the causes of all people. He is a person of great virtue.

This is one of the best discussions I have seen on the role of the news media in a free society and the constructive role government must play in a democracy. That includes the tour of town hall meetings the FCC held across the United States to solicit feedback on the destruction of our media by corporatist interests. The American people were clearly very engaged and very well-informed of the threats a deregulated media are to democracy. (Thanks to Bill Clinton. Once again Bill Clinton was more than likely the worst President in our history from a policy standpoint. As we have noted before, George Bush was a very poor President but Bill Clinton left him with an economy and policy in shambles.)

If our society is going to return to prosperity, government needs to work on behalf of the people aka we must have the return of a rule of law. We must overturn the fraudulent deregulation and destruction of our society by the corporatist state.