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Do you get Bill Moyers?
We are faithful Bill Moyers fans at our house. I love that he asks the questions that no other journalist seems to be bothered to ask anymore. I increasingly despair of our modern media monoliths that are either too afraid, too lazy, or too busy making money to do the news coverage we need and deserve to be informed members of our political process.
The last journalist standing?
No, I don't think Bill Moyers is the last journalist standing but he may well be one of the few television journalists still willing to take a stand and ask the hard questions and take in-depth look at issues. While there are many print journalists still doing hard work in the trenches (although not as many as in bygone eras) most of the television journalists do not even deserve to be labeled as such. They are no more than talking heads no matter where they do their talking.
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Do you get Bill Moyers
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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.
Posted April 25, 2008
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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
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Bill Moyers (born June 5, 1934, as William Donald "Billy Don" Moyers) is an American journalist and public commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the Johnson Administration from 1965-67. Since 1990, he has been President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. He lives in New York City.
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- 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.
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"There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse ... free media"
Bill Moyers on Media
"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."
FCC Update
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | FCC Update | PBS
This week on Bill Moyers Journal: On November 2, 2007, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin announced that the Commission would hold the sixth and final public hearing on media consolidation November 9, 2007 in Seattle, Washington. Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein blasted the Chairman's decision to give the public only five business days notice before the hearing: "With such short notice, many people will be shut out ... This is outrageous and not how important media policy should be made." To watch online visit: http://www.pbs.org/moyers check your local listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html
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What's Wrong with Big Media
Bill Moyers :What's Wrong with Big Media
Hear commentary by Bill Moyers of PBS at the opening remarks for the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis Tennessee, held January 2007. The conference featured people who work in the media world, politicians and FCC Commissioners. Produced by 411 Productions. This clip was for San Antonio Public Access TV.
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Low Power Radio
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Low Power Radio | PBS
Local news is the heartbeat of democracy, so why is it disappearing from many communities around the nation? Bill Moyers talks to with journalist Rick Karr and media activist Hannah Sassaman about the future of the nation's low power radio stations, which in many cases are the last media outlets covering important local events like school board meetings, town meetings and civic groups.
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Net Neutrality
Bill Moyers on Net Neutrality Victories
Clip highlighting recent Net Neutrality victories from Bill Moyers' speech to the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis, Jan 12, 2007. More videos at www.freepress.net/conference
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NCMR 2007 -- PART 1
Bill Moyers at NCMR 2007 -- PART 1
Bill Moyers' address to the National Conference on Media Reform, Jan 12, 2007. PART 1 of 2. More videos at www.freepress.net/conference
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NCMR 2007 -- PART 2
Bill Moyers at NCMR 2007 -- PART 2
Bill Moyers' address to the National Conference on Media Reform, Jan 12, 2007. PART 2 of 2. More videos at www.freepress.net/conference
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Moyer on Murdoch
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Moyers on Murdoch | PBS
A Bill Moyers essay on Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal. PBS: Friday, June 29, 2007 at 9PM (Check Your Local Listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html All Shows are Available Online at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers
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Enjoy his perspective
NOW with Bill Moyers: Perspectives
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"One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal."
Bill Moyers On Delusion
"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 ."
"Democracy belongs to those who exercise it"
Buying the War
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Buying the War | Excerpt | PBS
Bill Moyers Journal: Buying the War Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 9 PM on PBS (check local listings) How the administration marketed the war to the American people has been well covered, but critical questions remain: How and why did the press buy it, and what does it say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from propaganda? In this clip from the premiere of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS, Bob Simon of 60 Minutes, who was based in the Middle East, talks about the reporting he was seeing and reading out of the beltway, and John Walcott and Warren Strobel of Knight Ridder newspapers (now The McClatchy Company), discuss their work burrowing deep into the intelligence agencies to determine whether there was any evidence for the Bush Administration's case for war. On Wednesday, April 25 at 9 P.M. on PBS (check local listings), watch "Buying the War," a 90-minute documentary that explores the role of the press in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, which includes interviews with Dan Rather, formerly of CBS; Tim Russert of Meet the Press; and Walter Isaacson, former president of CNN. Two days later on April 27, the Bill Moyers Journal airs its regular timeslot on Fridays at 9 P.M. with interviews and news analysis of underreported stories across an array of beats, including: the environment, media, politics, the economy, arts and culture, and social issues.
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For The Fallen
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | For the Fallen | PBS
Bill Moyers on the fate of the authors of "The War as We Saw It." The program airs Friday, September 28 at 9 p.m. on PBS. To watch online visit: http://wwww.pbs.org/moyers Check your local listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html
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Impeachment Panel
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Impeachment Panel Excerpt | PBS
This week, Bill Moyers Journal takes an in-depth look at the heated talk of impeachment taking place across the country. To explore the issue, Bill Moyers is joined by Bruce Fein, a constitutional scholar, who was Associate Deputy Attorney General under President Reagan and is a weekly columnist for THE WASHINGTON TIMES and John Nichols, a Washington correspondent for THE NATION magazine and author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT: The Founders' Cure for Royalism. The program airs Friday, July 13 at 9 p.m. on PBS. To watch online visit: http://wwww.pbs.org/moyers check your local listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html Comment after the broadcast at The Moyers Blog: http://www.pbs.org/moyers
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We Are The Leaders
We are the leaders we've been waiting for.
Grace Lee Boggs,(91 years young) brings a message of hope during troubling times with a new paradigm of leadership and activism.
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Cleaning House
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Cleaning House | PBS
One of Washington's most influential public advocates, Joan Claybrook of Public Citizen, talks about what is at stake in the ethical reforms under consideration in Congress. Find out more and learn when BILL MOYERS JOURNAL airs on your local PBS station at http://www.pbs.org/moyers and talk back about money and politics on the blog at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/
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The Rove Legacy
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | The Rove Legacy | PBS
Bill Moyers bids farewell to Karl Rove. The program aired Friday, August 17, 2007. To watch online visit: http://wwww.pbs.org/moyers Check your local listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html
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Ron Paul
Jeremy Scahill
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Jeremy Scahill | PBS
Bill Moyers interviews investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill about Blackwater -- in this clip Scahill tells the incredible story of armed Blackwater troops being sent into New Orleans on the order of Blackwater CEO Erik Prince in the aftermath of Katrina. Bill Moyers Journal, airing Friday, October 19th at 9 on PBS, examines what's behind Prince's recent blitz of television interviews defending his private security firm when officials in Iraq said they wanted the company out of their country in the wake of the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians on September 16. Scahill is the author of the bestselling book: Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. To watch online visit: http://wwww.pbs.org/moyers check your local listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html
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"We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story..."
Bill Moyers On Humanity
"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."
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."
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The Yes Men
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | The Yes Men Excerpt | PBS
Friday, July 20 at 9pm: Bill Moyers gets in on the joke with two impersonators who use satire to make serious points about media consolidation, journalism, business ethics, and separating fact from fiction in a world of spin. The Yes Men - aka Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum - who discovered that pranks could get press attention to important issues that would otherwise be ignored. Watch all episodes online at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers Check local listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html
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Housing Market Meltdown 1 of 2
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Bill Moyers discusses the "housing market meltdown", the ongoing subprime mortgage and hedge fund crisis, and the "housing bubble" and "homebuying mania" with the New York Times' Pulitzer-prize winning business reporter Gretchen Morgenson. [1of2, transcript at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06292007/transcript5.html]
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Bill Moyers On Healing
Healing and the Mind
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Christian Zionism
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Christian Zionism | PBS
As leader of the politically powerful group Christians United for Israel (CUFI), Pastor John Hagee wants to bring millions of Christians together to support Israel. But some say his message is dangerous: "It is time for America to...consider a military preemptive strike against Iran to prevent a nuclear holocaust in Israel and a nuclear attack in America." Bill Moyers Journal reports on CUFI and then gets theological and political context from Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun, a Jewish journal of politics, culture, and spirituality, and Dr. Timothy P. Weber, an evangelical Christian, historian, and the author of On The Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel's Best Friend. Also on the program, a year after the tragic shooting, Bill Moyers looks at what the Amish can teach us about healing. The program airs Friday, October 5 at 9 p.m. on PBS. To watch online visit: http://www.pbs.org/moyers check your local listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html
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Faith and reason
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Dennis Kucinich
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Dennis Kucinich | PBS
Thousands of media outlets descended on Iowa, erecting a powerful wall of TV cameras and reporters between the voters and candidates. Bill Moyers talks with Dennis Kucinich who knows well the power of the press to set expectations and transform the agenda. For more, go to http://www.pbs.org/moyers
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Jack Goldsmith
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Jack Goldsmith | PBS
In these two excerpts from Bill Moyers Journal, Jack Goldsmith, former head the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department, gives an insider's view of advising the President on the limits of executive power during the war on terror. In the second excerpt, Goldsmith recounts what he calls "the most amazing scene I'd ever witnessed"—the night then White House counsel Alberto Gonzalez and former White House chief of staff Andrew Card Gonzalez, went to the hospital to try to persuade Attorney General John Ashcroft to give his permission on a secret surveillance plan, overriding acting Attorney General James Comey. Watch all episodes online at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers Check your local listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html
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Prepare to be amazed...
The Moyers Collection: Amazing Grace with Bill Moyers
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SOS
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | SOS | PBS
A Bill Moyers Essay on the postal rate hike and its effect on small independent magazines. To learn more, visit http://www.pbs.org/moyers
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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 Posted May 18, 2008 |
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Graceonline
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. Posted April 25, 2008 |
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LeslieBrenner
I love Bill Moyers too! Love his speeches, his interviews and all the fine work he's done. Posted April 09, 2008 |
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