Bill Moyers speaking at the Center's 10th anniversary celebrations. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file. Let me tell you why the Schumann Foundation has been such a large supporter of the Center for Public Integrity. The truth about politics today is embarrassing. Our elections are sold to the highest bidder.
Bribery buys tax breaks, subsidies and favors.
Rich people are not only buying more homes, more travel, more vacations and more gizmos, they re also buying more democracy. The political class, the corporate, political and media elites in this town have circled the wagons and are denying the corruption that exists. When communism had the monopoly on ideology in Moscow, it became a closed system. Only the evidence that supported the consensus that existed in the capital was submitted. Now that market capitalism owns the monopoly in Washington, a conformity reigns here as well.