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Legendary broadcast journalist Bill Moyers has said:

"We've got to get alternative content out there to people, or this
country's going to die of too many lies."

Moyers was asked what the corporate media means for our democracy:

"It means that virtually everything the average person sees or hears,
outside of her own personal communications, is determined by the
interests of private, unaccountable executives and investors whose
primary goal is increasing profits and raising the share prices. More
insidiously, this small group of elites determines what ordinary people
do not see or hear. In-depth coverage of anything, let alone the
problems real people face day-to-day, is as scarce as sex, violence, and
voyeurism are pervasive." "So if we need to know what is happening, and
Big Media won't tell us; if we need to know why it matters, and Big
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