We have a slime machine?  Was it created by the same people that came up with Karl Rove's Weather machine?  I'm guessing the early versions of the slime machine were so big that they took up an entire room but the later versions are as small as an IPOD. 

That way the "slime machine" can be distributed cheaply to the masses giving us the ability to slime anyone who disagrees with, say,  global warming or gun control.

I sure hope that Haliburton was behind the production of the slime machine.  I'd hate to see the proceeds from something as sinister as this go to a front company that sells carbon off-sets or something.

Can I buy a slime machine at Wal-Mart yet? 

There are more media sources today than there ever was, as a result we’re losing our ability to, we’re losing the common knowledge that helps us act a society in response to certain crises.

So to restate what Moyers said, we liberals are losing our grip over the news (propaganda) dissemination machine, because there are too many news outlets.  As a result of this loss of power to control the news, the country (the great unwashed masses) can no longer be told what to believe and how to solve problems of our creation.

Yea, Bill I really feel sorry for you and empathize with your loss.  NOT!

That liberals are so worried about this tells me we are heading in the right direction and we must not relax our efforts to thoroughly discredit the MSM by in fact redoubling our efforts to make sure all Americans and the World gets the news reported factually without error or editorialized so people can make up their own minds.  "We report, You decide" Keep up the good work Fox News, drive that holly stake right through the MSM's heart. 

There is a place for editorializing, it's called the opinion section and that section should be open to all perspectives including the Right and Left.  You know what they say about opinions?  They are like $%#$%%^$% and everyone has one.

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius

So, Moyersaurus and Ratherdon pine for the days when three network news organizations all queued off the NY Times headline, and there were few significant alternatives to information that could challenge there reporting and editing.  Their jobs were so easy then, and no one questioned their persepective.  Boo-hoo.

How about a show where they analyze how the MSM  "slime machine" attacks   the skeptics in the Global Warming debate, equating them with Holocaust deniers.  Ooops.  My mistake . . . . Prince Albert Gore says the debate is over (I guess we missed it).

I would think their teaming up like this is a clear admission of what sensible people have been saying all along: These two are leftists and were associated with lefty outfits.

Bill and Dan, I thank you.

Rochester, Minnesota: A Fem_Leftist City!

What Bill calls the "slime machine", I like to call "contrary viewpoints", "facts that the liberal MSM chose not to report", and "an assumption that the viewer knows how to think for themselves".

Liked your blog, Tim. But it's "omnipresent" instead of "omnipresence" in your lead sentence. "Omnipresence" is a noun; "omnipresent" is the adjective you were looking for.

Ye olde school m'arm...

No better example of the "war" which is going on in this country today.  The left-wing media is the enemy within.

NEVER, NEVER trust a liberal

I have a co-worker who proudly proclaims himself to be a Democrat. I have no problem with this at all. We actually agree on most issues, i.e. death penalty, guns, etc. One major point of contention, however, is Fox news. Just the mention of the channel generates the same vitriol, let alone the name Bill O'Reilly. He spouts the liberal party line about Fox being a right-wing propaganda machine. Of course, I immediately asked him to provide examples. And of course, he had none to offer.

How many times have the traditional MSM (ABC, CBS, NBC, NYT, etc.) been flat-out caught in misreporting or outright lies? How many times has Fox (once that I know of, concerning Obama's education - and it was corrected/retracted within days)?

The MSM is playing the same old game - repeat the party line often enough and people start believing it. This is what they did to Bush's approval rating, the war in Iraq, gun control, and the US economy. This is what they're doing to Cristianity, immigration and conservative information sources.

Moyers: How, if a journalist tried to tell the truth about the intelligence, the Hannitys and the O’Reillys and the Limbaughs and the Mike Savages would come down on them, slander them, discredit them,...........

   Moyers reminds me of my father's comment way back when I was a kid.  "There's two kinds of people in the world.  People who agree with me and people who are wrong".

Moyers and Stahl complain because the Borg has been neutered!

A true journalist would praise the rise of alternative media since it allows all voices and opinions into the mix which is the supposed aim of liberal democracy by their guideposts.

..uh-huh......"fake but accurate"....

"Eventually, Socialists run out of other peoples' money...." MARGARET THATCHER