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#32 Bill Moyers
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Bill Moyers hosts the weekly PBS news program Bill Moyers Journal. He served as President Lyndon Johnson's press secretary.
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As the host of Bill Moyers Journal in the 1970s and a commentator for CBS Evening News in the 1980s, Moyers explored American society and politics, typically from a liberal perspective and often emphasizing the media’s role in shaping and influencing events, for better or worse. Though mostly on the sidelines during the 1990s, Moyers returned to television during the George W. Bush years. Heavily critical of the Bush White House and the media's role in the Iraq War, he has experienced a resurgence in popularity. In 2006, Ralph Nader even made the case that Moyers should be drafted for president.
Though he did not coin the phrase, Moyers is one of the original sources of the concept that there is a unified, and sometimes irresponsible, "mainstream media.” He has famously made a habit of criticizing his own network, first at CBS in 1986, when he refused to renew his contract over concerns of declining journalistic standards, and again in 2005, when he publicly denounced PBS leadership.
As the host of Bill Moyers Journal in the 1970s and a commentator for CBS Evening News in the 1980s, Moyers explored American society and politics, typically from a liberal perspective and often emphasizing the media’s role in shaping and influencing events, for better or worse. Though mostly on the sidelines during the 1990s, Moyers returned to television during the George W. Bush years. Heavily critical of the Bush White House and the media's role in the Iraq War, he has experienced a resurgence in popularity. In 2006, Ralph Nader even made the case that Moyers should be drafted for president.
Though he did not coin the phrase, Moyers is one of the original sources of the concept that there is a unified, and sometimes irresponsible, "mainstream media.” He has famously made a habit of criticizing his own network, first at CBS in 1986, when he refused to renew his contract over concerns of declining journalistic standards, and again in 2005, when he publicly denounced PBS leadership.
Bill Moyers on All Topics
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August 29, 2009
Torture Debate
Facing Torture Head On
“Smothering the reality of torture in euphemism of course has a political value. The enablers can use it to diminish the horror and possible lawlessness.”
July 17, 2009
Health Care Reform
Profits and Patients
“Over the years [insurance companies] have lavished millions on the politicians who are writing and voting on the bills coming out of committee, now it's payback time.”
July 11, 2009
Society
Hunger in America
“The masters of finance who brought on this disaster seem not a whit embarrassed by handouts of this magnitude.”
June 12, 2009
Crime and Law Enforcement
Bill Moyers on Gun Violence
“Neither party will stand up to the National Rifle Association.”
May 22, 2009
Military
Moyers on Memorial Day
“War, as was famously said, is politics by another means -- the lethal legacy of failed leadership, enabled, even ennobled, by propaganda, the partisan opiate of politics.”
May 15, 2009
Twitter
To Twitter or Not to Twitter?
“To Twitter or not to Twitter? To this immortal question, I surrender, and finally answer, unequivocally: Maybe.”
March 20, 2009
Reassessing Capitalism
Moyers on Socialism
“But at bottom, the issue isn't one ideology or another -- we're not that kind of country. The issue is inequality.”
February 27, 2009
Society
In Memorium
“The obits can also be a place to read about strangers you wish you had known, people whose lives left a light in the window for others.”
February 20, 2009
War in Afghanistan
Bill Moyers on Afghanistan
“My friend Parker Palmer speaks of the stripping away of illusion to stand on the firm ground of reality.”
February 6, 2009
Society
Bill Moyers on Lincoln's Legacy
“It wouldn't feel as unfair if the shackles wound up instead on the well-heeled feet of Wall Street and Washington's elect.”
January 23, 2009
Obama's Inauguration
Bill Moyers on the Forgotten
“That's the reality, crouched at Obama's door. Our door. Far too many members of this extended family, locked away, poor and in prison.”
January 9, 2009
War in Gaza
Bill Moyers on Middle East Violence
“Israel, the Palestinians, the United States. Each greases the cycle of violence, as one man's terrorism becomes another's resistance to oppression.”
January 2, 2009
Labor
Remembering Al Meyerhoff
“Al Meyerhoff was a hero to many and to bullies, an unrelenting foe.”