Archives: Media Ownership

On Friday December 17, 2004, at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), Bill Moyers signs off as host and managing editor PBS's weekly newsmagazine NOW with Bill Moyers after three seasons at the helm by continuing NOW's ongoing coverage of the impact of media consolidation on democracy.  The program looks inside the Republican media machine that the conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks called a "dazzlingly efficient ideology delivery system" and examines how conservatives exploited the demise of the fairness doctrine to produce a vast echo chamber that is admittedly partisan and powerfully successful.  NOW continues its hard-hitting journalism and thoughtful analysis on January 7 with veteran journalist and current co-host David Brancaccio as its new host in 2005.