Moyers at NCMR 2008

Here is a video of legendary journalist Bill Moyers who this morning electrified an audience of more than 3,500 at the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis as he declared the media reform movement and Net Neutrality to be the most significant citizens' movements to emerge in this new century. "The fate of the cyber commons is up for grabs here," he said. "We'll lose that fight without you because the only antidote to the power of money in Washington is the power of organized people at the netroots." Moyers asserts that what we need to know to make democracy work is compromised by dominant media institutions that are becoming more deeply embedded in the politics of our society, and whose interests are more about manufacturing profitable consumer commodities than they are about helping fulfill the social compact. Interestingly provocative and well worth the 40 min runtime.