Did anyone watch Bill Moyers NOW broadcast?

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Did anyone watch Bill Moyers NOW broadcast Friday?

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Primetime TV airing of Bill Moyer's view opposing usual right wing

slant. Compared current tactics to nazi germany's.

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Bill Moyers will air his final TV program Friday (12-17-2004) on NOW

program on PBS. He says it is about the " most important " subject he

feels is facing our society. It appears that he will be discussing a

few very specific reasons why our world society is experiencing a

pronounced information validity crisis.

You can check viewing times and channels at the link below...

http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html

For Moyers, 'Now' becomes then as TV journalist

Monday, December 13, 2004

By Frazier , The Associated Press

" I was just in the editing room, working on the last piece, " Bill

Moyers says. " I thought: 'I've done this so many times, and each one

is as difficult as the last one.' Maybe finally I've broken the

habit. "

It hasn't been so much a habit for Moyers as a truth-telling mission

during his three decades as a TV journalist. But come Friday, he

will sign off from " Now, " the weekly PBS newsmagazine he began in

2002, as, at age 70, he retires from TV.

" I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story

of our time: How the right-wing media has become a partisan

propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee, " says

Moyers. " We have an ideological press that's interested in the

election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in

the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent

press whose interest is the American people. "

For that, his absence after the last " Now " (9 p.m. Friday, WQED)

will be all the more keenly felt: Moyers' interest has always been

the American people.

A humanist who's at home with subjects ranging from the power of

myth to media consolidation, from drug addiction to modern dance,

from religion to environmental abuse, Moyers has produced hundreds

of hours of diverse programming on issues that others shortchange,

sidestep or simply fail to notice. And through it all, he has looked

upon his audience not as targeted consumers, or as voters split

along a Red State-Blue State divide, but as his fellow citizens.

The Texas native, who earned a divinity degree (he's an ordained

Baptist minister), served as special assistant to President

and for several years was publisher of the Long Island newspaper,

Newsday.

In 1971, he came to public television as host of " This Week "

and " Bill Moyers' Journal " . He then joined CBS News to do similarly

civic-minded programming.

In 1986 he and his wife, Judith son Moyers, became their own

bosses by forming Public Affairs Television, an independent shop

that has not only produced documentaries such as " A Walk Through the

20th Century, " " Healing and the Mind " and " A Gathering of Men with

Bly, " but also paid for them through its own fund-raising

With his days at " Now " ticking down, Moyers voices pride in that

series, which, upon its premiere three years ago, he envisioned

as " a flexible format for ideas and conversation, reportage and

debate. " Now reaching 2.4 million viewers weekly with its breaking-

news currency and contemplative pace, " Now " will continue with his

worthy co-host, Brancaccio, taking over.

" It has gained traction, " says Moyers -- if only by default, in an

era where most TV journalism gravitates toward the sensational or

trivial. " As the networks have raced to the bottom, it is very easy

to stand out if you just do good journalism. We've been trying to do

good journalism, and it filled a real void. "

One example of typically good journalism on " Now " not long ago: An

in-depth look at the record of President Bush's nominee for

secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, who in her current post as

national security adviser " dreadfully misjudged the terrorist threat

leading up to 9/11, and then misled America and the world about the

case for invading Iraq, " as Moyers concluded.

It was the sort of report unlikely to be found on most newscasts,

and even less likely to endear a reporter to the powers-that-be, on

whose good graces the media has grown all too reliant. But Moyers

believes that challenging those in power is a journalist's duty --

and, consequently, his.

" What they're really objecting to is not my ideology, " he says in

his thoughtful, almost pastoral manner. " I'd be doing this if the

Democrats were in power. It's not that I'm a liberal, it really

isn't. It's the fact that I'm doing journalism that isn't determined

by the establishment.

Through his own devices, Moyers has been the journalist he wanted to

be, while honored for it with more than 30 Emmys and 10 Peabody

awards.

" I've just been doing the kind of journalism that ought to be done,

if you had the opportunity to do it, " he insists. " The fight has

been to create that opportunity and that independence. "

It's been a fight he fought well. But where will tomorrow's Bill

Moyers come from?

" We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this

country, " he warns, " or we'll not save capitalism from its own

excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia. "

[Guest guest]

Did anyone watch Bill Moyers NOW broadcast Friday?

SSRI medications/message/16580

Primetime TV airing of Bill Moyer's view opposing usual right wing

slant. Compared current tactics to nazi germany's.

---------------

Bill Moyers will air his final TV program Friday (12-17-2004) on NOW

program on PBS. He says it is about the " most important " subject he

feels is facing our society. It appears that he will be discussing a

few very specific reasons why our world society is experiencing a

pronounced information validity crisis.

You can check viewing times and channels at the link below...

http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html

For Moyers, 'Now' becomes then as TV journalist

Monday, December 13, 2004

By Frazier , The Associated Press

" I was just in the editing room, working on the last piece, " Bill

Moyers says. " I thought: 'I've done this so many times, and each one

is as difficult as the last one.' Maybe finally I've broken the

habit. "

It hasn't been so much a habit for Moyers as a truth-telling mission

during his three decades as a TV journalist. But come Friday, he

will sign off from " Now, " the weekly PBS newsmagazine he began in

2002, as, at age 70, he retires from TV.

" I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story

of our time: How the right-wing media has become a partisan

propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee, " says

Moyers. " We have an ideological press that's interested in the

election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in

the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent

press whose interest is the American people. "

For that, his absence after the last " Now " (9 p.m. Friday, WQED)

will be all the more keenly felt: Moyers' interest has always been

the American people.

A humanist who's at home with subjects ranging from the power of

myth to media consolidation, from drug addiction to modern dance,

from religion to environmental abuse, Moyers has produced hundreds

of hours of diverse programming on issues that others shortchange,

sidestep or simply fail to notice. And through it all, he has looked

upon his audience not as targeted consumers, or as voters split

along a Red State-Blue State divide, but as his fellow citizens.

The Texas native, who earned a divinity degree (he's an ordained

Baptist minister), served as special assistant to President

and for several years was publisher of the Long Island newspaper,

Newsday.

In 1971, he came to public television as host of " This Week "

and " Bill Moyers' Journal " . He then joined CBS News to do similarly

civic-minded programming.

In 1986 he and his wife, Judith son Moyers, became their own

bosses by forming Public Affairs Television, an independent shop

that has not only produced documentaries such as " A Walk Through the

20th Century, " " Healing and the Mind " and " A Gathering of Men with

Bly, " but also paid for them through its own fund-raising

With his days at " Now " ticking down, Moyers voices pride in that

series, which, upon its premiere three years ago, he envisioned

as " a flexible format for ideas and conversation, reportage and

debate. " Now reaching 2.4 million viewers weekly with its breaking-

news currency and contemplative pace, " Now " will continue with his

worthy co-host, Brancaccio, taking over.

" It has gained traction, " says Moyers -- if only by default, in an

era where most TV journalism gravitates toward the sensational or

trivial. " As the networks have raced to the bottom, it is very easy

to stand out if you just do good journalism. We've been trying to do

good journalism, and it filled a real void. "

One example of typically good journalism on " Now " not long ago: An

in-depth look at the record of President Bush's nominee for

secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, who in her current post as

national security adviser " dreadfully misjudged the terrorist threat

leading up to 9/11, and then misled America and the world about the

case for invading Iraq, " as Moyers concluded.

It was the sort of report unlikely to be found on most newscasts,

and even less likely to endear a reporter to the powers-that-be, on

whose good graces the media has grown all too reliant. But Moyers

believes that challenging those in power is a journalist's duty --

and, consequently, his.

" What they're really objecting to is not my ideology, " he says in

his thoughtful, almost pastoral manner. " I'd be doing this if the

Democrats were in power. It's not that I'm a liberal, it really

isn't. It's the fact that I'm doing journalism that isn't determined

by the establishment.

Through his own devices, Moyers has been the journalist he wanted to

be, while honored for it with more than 30 Emmys and 10 Peabody

awards.

" I've just been doing the kind of journalism that ought to be done,

if you had the opportunity to do it, " he insists. " The fight has

been to create that opportunity and that independence. "

It's been a fight he fought well. But where will tomorrow's Bill

Moyers come from?

" We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this

country, " he warns, " or we'll not save capitalism from its own

excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia. "