Bill Moyers- Special Edition of Now tomorrow night

[Rose Siding]

Must See (while ya still can) TV

http://www.pbs.org/now/

Alterman writes...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

Bill Moyers has a special edition of “NOW” tomorrow night in which he digs more deeply into the 9/11 Commission Report than anyone on television has so far seen fit to do. In dong so he demonstrates a few things. One is the obvious power of television when used properly, to tell a story with words and images that is immensely more powerful than just the latter can be. (I read the transcript for the show and found the words to be somewhat dead, alone on the paper. But when combined with the images Moyers and his producers have assembled, their impact is positively visceral.)

Second, as Moyers demonstrates merely by sticking to the story, the media have pretty much given the Bush administration a pass on 9/11—both for its lack of serious planning and preparation for any predictable form of terrorist attack as well as its panicky and ultimately counter-productive reaction to the attack itself. Cheney ordered the shoot-down of the plane without even talking to Bush. Rumsfeld was completely out of the loop. Officers way down the line of responsibility were forced to make life or death decisions while those at the top were either out to lunch or too incompetent to deal with the crisis. Planes were scrambled without pilots being given any instruction whatever. (One says he was looking for a cruise missile attack from Russia.) Condoleezza Rice, in particular, comes off as profoundly incompetent and unwilling to take even the slightest responsibility for her failure to treat the threat of terrorism seriously.

And third, Moyers points out the poverty of this kind of reporting elsewhere in the broadcast media. Perhaps Ted K. does some of this. I don’t stay up late enough to say so. But nowhere else. And after the election, when Moyers retires, PBS is cutting NOW back to a half-hour to make room for the far-right ravings of The Wall Street Journal editors. So much for the Liberal Media.

[cornfedyank]

1. "It's beyond my understanding to know what motivates these people."

some guy on charlie rose just said that about the russian rebels.

Question; When you don't understand what motivates your "enemy", shouldn't that be a priority?

[AlCzervik]

2. Thanks for the heads up

i try never to miss NOW and hopefully my locas want be having yet another fundraising drive so i'll be able to see it.

[Wickerman]

3. thnaks for the heads up

that's a do not miss!