Big money and big media have coupled to create a “Disney World” of democracy in which TV shows, televised debates, even news coverage is being dumbed down, just as the volume is being turned up. The result is a public more entertained, but less informed and personally involved than they should be, says Marty Kaplan, director of USC’s Norman Lear Center and an entertainment industry veteran. In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers talks with Kaplan about how taking news out of the journalism box and placing it in the entertainment box is hurting democracy and allowing special interest groups to manipulate the system. Later on in the program, Moyers talks about Florida Rep. Allen West and shocking modern-day McCarthyism. Wasn’t this lesson already learned? Broadcast dates: April 27, 2012, and June 8, 2012. (57 minutes)