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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2009-06-04
Glenn Greenwald:   If you only speak to a very narrow slice of people. If you spend most of your time in Washington only speaking to political elites in both parties, or corporate executives and lobbyists, you have a very distorted picture of what public opinion is. I mean, a lot of times both political parties will agree on a certain position that a huge number of Americans, often even majorities actually reject. And yet, if all you're doing is talking to people in political power and political and financial elite, you will believe that the range of opinion is much narrower than it actually is. And so, it's not even some sort of Machiavellian or conspiratorial effort, sometimes, to exclude certain opinions. It's actually the fact that reporters and media stars and corporate and establishment journalists are so embedded into the establishment as a cultural and sociological matter. That they're so completely insular and out of touch from what public opinion actually is. And polls show that huge numbers of issues and positions that are held by large numbers of Americans are ones that are virtually never heard in our media discussions.
 
Amy Goodman:   I think the way the media works is they show the spectrum of opinion between the Democrats and the Republicans in Washington. Often that is very narrow. You look at the lead up to the invasion in Iraq, the core, the major Democrats joined with the Republicans in enabling that. And you look at now with health care, the same thing. But the fact is, the majority of Americans fall outside of that opinion. And it's our role in the media not just to bring you that spectrum, but to, well, provide -- I see the media as a huge kitchen table that we all sit around and debate and discuss these critical issues. To open up. That's what the American people want. And it's our responsibility to do it.

-- from the PBS television program Bill Moyers Journal, 2009-04-03

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posted by (anonymous) at 10:36am on 2009-06-04
While I thinlk the gist of their exchange is interesting, do I blame you-as-transcriptionist or the speakers for that painfully fragmented dialogue?
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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 11:36am on 2009-06-04
IIRC, a) I copied that from the transcript at the show's web site instead of doing it myself (if the two versions don't match, then I've misremembered, but I think I waited for the transcript to appear because I wanted to quote several chuunks of it) ... and b) ISTR it being that choppy when I watched it on television (again, subject to my possibly misremembering).
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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 11:40am on 2009-06-04
A bit more recollection re: choppiness: I have a vague memory of having heard bits I wanted to quote and feeling that they flowed nicely when I was watching for the first time, then feeling disappointed when I went back and watched again specifically for good quotes, realizing that the bits I wanted weren't really as smooth and tight after all when paying closer attention. But I may be attaching that memory to the wrong show.
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