An Eye on Power
by Bill Moyers
This speech was delivered at a Newspaper Guild/Communication Workers of America dinner on May 19, 2004.
...The secrecy today is so thick as to be all but impenetrable.
...)as secrecy grows, and media conglomerates put more and more power in fewer and fewer hands, we have witnessed the rise of a new phenomenon—a quasi-official partisan press ideologically linked to an authoritarian administration that is in turn the ally and agent of powerful financial and economic interests that consider transparencies a threat to their hegemony over public opinion. [
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