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Collects the speeches of television journalist Bill Moyers on topics such as democracy, freedom, history, the media, politics, and religion.

CBS News senior European correspondent Tom Fenton reveals how the news media has abandoned their responsibility to the American people in favor of serving their corporate sponsors, endangering Americans and the future of the media.

Looks at the history and evolution of freedom of the press in the United States, and examines threats to the principle in such areas as freedom of information, leaks of classified information, and police harrassment.

Examines how television, films, magazines, and the Internet influence the nation's youth in they way they dress, what they listen to, how they act, and what they think.

Helen Thomas offers an inside look at how the American press is being mislead by the government and why the press has become reluctant to question government spokesmen and search for the truth.

Details the lives of staffers in the west wing of the White House.

Examines the influence of the news media in American politics, arguing that the government could not act or work without the news; and presents a model of the reporter as a key participant in decision-making and policy-making, and of the news media as a central political force in government.