Who is Bill Moyers
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The last journalist standing?
Bill Moyers actually looks at issues in depth and pulls in smart, involved people to help us understand not only different sides of the debate but the many nuances that fall between the two extremes. This puts him levels above almost any other journalist on television today. In fact, in my opinion, he is one of only a handful (and I'm being generous here) of television journalists. Most of the talking heads on TV today call themselves journalists but they don't even know what that word means as they are more about sound bites and creating/perpetuating conflict than providing in-depth coverage that might actually lead to solutions and understanding. I honestly believe the world would be a better place if more people watched Bill Moyers Journal.
Thank you, Bill Moyers, and may you never retire!
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The last journalist standing?
What can you learn about Bill Moyers?
- New from Bill Moyers
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- The last journalist standing?
- Three reasons to love Bill Moyers
- Do you?
- Bill Moyers Journal
- Watch Bill Moyers Journal
- Learn more about Bill Moyers and his work on PBS
- Let Everyone Know How You Feel About Bill Moyers
- Bill Moyers on Media
- FCC Update
- What's Wrong with Big Media
- Low Power Radio
- Net Neutrality
- NCMR 2007 -- PART 1
- NCMR 2007 -- PART 2
- Moyer on Murdoch
- Enjoy his perspective
- Bill Moyers On Delusion
- Buying the War
- For The Fallen
- Impeachment Panel
- We Are The Leaders
- Cleaning House
- The Rove Legacy
- Ron Paul
- Jeremy Scahill
- More from Bill Moyers
- Vote for your favorite Bill Moyers items
- Bill Moyers On Humanity
- More Quotes From Bill Moyers
- If you have ever wondered...
- The Yes Men
- Housing Market Meltdown 1 of 2
- Bill Moyers On Healing
- Christian Zionism
- Faith and reason
- Dennis Kucinich
- Jack Goldsmith
- Prepare to be amazed...
- SOS
- More From Bill Moyers
- Vote for your favorite Bill Moyers clip
- What do you think of Bill Moyers?
- Share your favorite Bill Moyers moments!
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Three reasons to love Bill Moyers
2. He shares great guests who are both informative and informed
3. He is one of a rare breed today -- a true and thoughtful journalist who offers thought-provoking and in-depth stories in a horse-race, sound-byte dominated media
Do you?
Do you get Bill Moyers

Yes I do
Graceonline says:
Absolutely. I try to watch him every week. I love his show for the reasons you state: He asks the questions other journalists are afraid to ask. He does in-depth reporting. He's not afraid to point out the fact that the emperor has no clothes.
No I don't
Bill Moyers Journal
Watch Bill Moyers Journal
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Learn more about Bill Moyers and his work on PBS
- Bill Moyers Journal
- Veteran journalist Bill Moyers returns to PBS with Bill Moyers Journal, a weekly program of interviews and news analysis on a wide range of subjects, including politics, arts and culture, the media, the economy, and issues facing democracy.
- Bill Moyers on PBS
- In addition to the BILL MOYERS JOURNAL, many previous Bill Moyers programs live on online.
- Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason . Watch & Listen | PBS
- Get online only video and audio selections from Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason and other Moyers broadcasts
- Moyers on America
- Bill Moyers returns to investigative journalism with MOYERS ON AMERICA, a series of three documentaries on issues affecting democracy - money in politics, the environment, and internet neutrality.
Let Everyone Know How You Feel About Bill Moyers
“There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse ... free media”
Bill Moyers on Media
FCC Update
What's Wrong with Big Media
Low Power Radio
Net Neutrality
NCMR 2007 -- PART 1
NCMR 2007 -- PART 2
Moyer on Murdoch
Enjoy his perspective
“One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal.”
Bill Moyers On Delusion
“Democracy belongs to those who exercise it”
Buying the War
For The Fallen
Impeachment Panel
We Are The Leaders
Cleaning House
The Rove Legacy
Ron Paul
Jeremy Scahill
More from Bill Moyers
Vote for your favorite Bill Moyers items
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
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“We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story...”
Bill Moyers On Humanity
More Quotes From Bill Moyers
"Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people."
"As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher."
"Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't."
"There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle."
"When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest."
"A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times? I consider myself a fortunate man to have a forum for my curiosity."
"Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization . . . Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility."
"Every filmmaker, every journalist has to be arrogant. You have to say "I have the truth, you got to pay attention, you got to listen.""
"In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a spiritual idea embedded in a political reality -- one nation, indivisible -- or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others."
"I own and operate a ferocious ego."
"The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience-there and then gone."
"Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life."
"What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it -- as if the cause depends on you, because it does."
"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of"
"Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page."
"Democracy belongs to those who exercise it."
"There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians -- they stay bought."
"When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only hope is to seek every evidence that God is just, by communing with the people we know who are strongest in faith."
"We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience."
"America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up."
"We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings."
"New ages don't arrive overnight, or without "blood, sweat, and tears.""
"We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do."
"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism."
"I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies."
"One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress ."
"For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington."
"He believed the long and great struggle of America was the struggle to ensure that the rewards of a free society went to everybody and not just to the top."
"John Nichols and Bob McChesney are the Paul Revere and Thomas Paine of our time. We ignore them at democracy's peril."
"The country is not yet a theocracy but the Republican Party is,"
"We're seeing unfold a contemporary example of the age-old ambition of power and ideology to squelch and punish journalists who tell the stories that make princes and priests uncomfortable."
If you have ever wondered...
The Yes Men
Housing Market Meltdown 1 of 2
Bill Moyers On Healing
Christian Zionism
Faith and reason
Dennis Kucinich
Jack Goldsmith
Prepare to be amazed...
SOS
More From Bill Moyers
What do you think of Bill Moyers?
Share your favorite Bill Moyers moments!
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poutine
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- I'm a big fan of BIll Moyers also. Love watching some of his taped shows.
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- Welcome to The Totally Awesome Lenses Group
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talkingpoints
May 18, 2008 @ 6:37 pm | delete
- Thank you for this lens on Bill Moyers. I particularly enjoyed the quotes you have presented. In my lenses, such as that on the War On Terror, I highlight the failure of most of today's media to be truly critical and independent and to ask the hard questions of our political leaders. http://www.squidoo.com/war-on-terror
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Graceonline
Apr 25, 2008 @ 12:22 am | delete
- I am Stumbling this and putting it up on Magnolia and lensrolling so I don't forget that I need to come back and watch more of the videos. This is a tremendous resource. Thank you for providing it.
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LeslieBrenner Apr 9, 2008 @ 8:12 pm | delete
- I love Bill Moyers too! Love his speeches, his interviews and all the fine work he's done.
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