Moyers & Company — Season 1, Episode 13: Big Money, Big Media, Big Trouble

Episode synopsis

Big money and big media have coupled to create a ‘Disney World’ of democracy in which TV shows, televised debates, even news coverage is being dumbed down, resulting in a public less informed than it should be, says Marty Kaplan, director of USC’s Norman Lear Center and an entertainment industry veteran. Bill Moyers talks with Kaplan about how taking news out of the journalism box and placing it in the entertainment box is hurting democracy and allowing special interest groups to manipulate the system. Later on the show, Bill talks about Florida Rep. Allen West and shocking modern-day McCarthyism.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1On Winner-Take-All Politics
• E2Crony Capitalism
• E3How Big Banks are Rewriting the Rules of Our Economy
• E4How Do Conservatives and Liberals See the World?
• E5Economic Malpractice and the Millennials
• E6Decoding the Campaigns
• E7Where Movies End and Politics Begins
• E8Moving Beyond War
• E9Standing Up For Democracy
• E10Gambling With Your Money
• E11An Optimist for Our Times
• E12The Case for Old-School Faith & Politics