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Moyers & Company, Public Affairs Television

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Moyers & Company

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Broadcast date: July 12, 2013

Public Affairs Television

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Across the world - Egypt, Greece, Spain, Brazil - citizens are turning angrily to their governments to demand economic fair play and equality. But here in America, with few exceptions, the streets and airwaves remain relatively silent. In a country as rich and powerful as America, why is there so little outcry about the ever-increasing, deliberate divide between the very wealthy and everyone else? In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill is joined by media scholar Marty Kaplan, who points to a number of forces keeping these issues and affected citizens in the dark - especially our well-fed appetite for media distraction

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Distracted from democracy