Comments on: Molly Ivins: http://www.mikel.org/arch/2004/08/molly_ivins.html Michael Boyle's weblog Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: aj http://www.mikel.org/arch/2004/08/molly_ivins.html/comment-page-1#comment-212 aj Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:40:27 +0000 http://www.mikel.org/?p=2083#comment-212 Well, NOW with Bill Moyers is quite good, and fairly snappy for a program of its genre - well worth watching. Anyone notice a rather stridently right-wing, pro-Conservative tone in the Gazette's op-ed lately, by the way? I really ought to cancel my subscription. Well, NOW with Bill Moyers is quite good, and fairly snappy for a program of its genre – well worth watching.

Anyone notice a rather stridently right-wing, pro-Conservative tone in the Gazette’s op-ed lately, by the way? I really ought to cancel my subscription.

]]> By: Michael http://www.mikel.org/arch/2004/08/molly_ivins.html/comment-page-1#comment-211 Michael Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:44:46 +0000 http://www.mikel.org/?p=2083#comment-211 Yeah - I can't believe that PBS still takes David Brooks seriously, for instance, as he repeats his unverifiable generalizations and RNC talking points as if by rote. And that's the BEST - no one else comes close to Lehrer. Yeah – I can’t believe that PBS still takes David Brooks seriously, for instance, as he repeats his unverifiable generalizations and RNC talking points as if by rote. And that’s the BEST – no one else comes close to Lehrer.

]]> By: aj http://www.mikel.org/arch/2004/08/molly_ivins.html/comment-page-1#comment-210 aj Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:31:09 +0000 http://www.mikel.org/?p=2083#comment-210 Ivins nails it, but what she leaves unsaid is that there really isn't any US news source to purely inform or allow people to form their own opinions. Even PBS has pretty much been bought out by far-right groups who buy time on local affiliates to put their own "fair and balanced" shows on the air. There is C-SPAN, which rocks, but it requires an attention span and some idea of who the players are. They do show Democracy Now! in some areas on CSPAN but it alienates as many people with its granola, non-TV sensibility as it attracts. It would be cool if Al Gore's Newsworld International would get loads of local affiliates and get the Air America people to contribute some content -- purely as a counterbalance -- but more than ever I'm glad we have the CBC! Ivins nails it, but what she leaves unsaid is that there really isn’t any US news source to purely inform or allow people to form their own opinions. Even PBS has pretty much been bought out by far-right groups who buy time on local affiliates to put their own “fair and balanced” shows on the air.

There is C-SPAN, which rocks, but it requires an attention span and some idea of who the players are. They do show Democracy Now! in some areas on CSPAN but it alienates as many people with its granola, non-TV sensibility as it attracts.

It would be cool if Al Gore’s Newsworld International would get loads of local affiliates and get the Air America people to contribute some content — purely as a counterbalance — but more than ever I’m glad we have the CBC!

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