Bill Moyers Interview with Michael Copps about Media and Democracy

Below is a transcript of an interview between Bill Moyers and former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps.  Copps talks about the downside of "big media"  for journalism.  He notes, for instance:

"So the new media, for all the good things it has done — and it has done a lot of cool things, with the instant pictures and instant stories and the Arab Spring and all that stuff, but it hasn’t replaced what we’ve lost in traditional media, from the standpoint of serious and sustained investigative accountability, hold-the-powerful-accountable journalism. Until we address both parts of that equation, we will not have a media system that is worthy of the government."

We need to worry about the impact of big corporate control of the media on our ability to get truly objective journalism that, as Copps said, makes the powerful accountable for their actions.  

 Here is the interview:
Former FCC Commissioner: Big Media Dumbs Down Democracy | Q&A | BillMoyers.com