Moyers on Democracy
by Bill Moyers
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Author: Bill MoyersEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN: 0385523807
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Doubleday
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Book Review: Moyers Rises High Over Party Politics
Summary: 5 Stars
Moyers rises high over party politics as he salutes wide-ranging, even argumentative conversation, saying "you stand up for your country when you stand up to the government." He encourages each of us to state our own views strongly, not only to get out more deeply held feelings, but also to stake our claims as individuals - "Talking with people who agree with you is like jogging in a cul-de-sac". Moyers thinks we should follow the trail of money from lobbyists to laws than benefit only the few. Moyers wants media, even or especially NPR, to report more in-depth stories about real people, the working and middle classes and their daily struggles. We should not, for example, consider a news story balanced just because it has a Democrat quoted and a Republican quoted, but rather if it does that AND provides historical and economic context. We shouldn't be describing an escalation of the war in Iraq as a "surge - as if it were a current of electricity charging through a wire instead of blood spurting from a soldier's ruptured veins." Moyers is one of those people so important to our society, one who knows that issues are more important than party, that being open is more important than being right, that the right thing is not always the most profitable.
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