| Bill Moyers: Free Speech For Sale | ||||
| Under the Constitution, every American has the right of
free speech, but does free speech matter if no one can hear you? Is free
speech, and the certainty of being heard, guaranteed only to those who
can afford it? Through purchasing massive amounts of advertising for political
purposes or by owning the companies that report the news, are powerful
corporations able to drown out the voices that disagree with them? Bill
Moyers examines the important questions affecting American democracy by
looking at industries with deep pockets that used their access to the media
-- or in some cases, their control of it -- to attempt to influence public
opinion.
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