Marty Kaplan on Big Money's Effect on Big Media from entertainment tv shows Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 25 min 85 sec ✓ Published: 27-Apr-2012
Description: 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, just as the volume is being turned up. The result is a public certainly more entertained, but less informed and personally involved than they 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
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