Sitting there in corporate controlled MSNBC, Bill Moyers and Rachel Maddow skirt delicately around what Moyer calls the “dark shadow” that hovers above corporate controlled media, inviting subtle self-censorship in even the most intrepid and independent of reporters.
And Bill Moyers reminds us that it was the British newspaper, The Guardian — a rare, independent paper held since it began by a family trust — that had the balls to take on the biggest media mogul of all time. And that the timing of the scandal was exquisite: Murdoch was holding court at the annual Sun Valley gathering of media and tech mogols — an event where he is revered for his wealth and power and “anything goes” philosophy — when the story broke and dragged him to London.
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